Cemeteries are running out of space, and cremation damages the environment, but there are other ways we could honour our dead ...

Every employee needs toilets and break facilities, but gig companies don’t provide these, leaving workers dependent on public ...

When researchers secretly used AI bots on Reddit to study how AI can influence human opinion it became a landmark moment for ...

What started as a few underpayment cases revealed by Australian media in 2015 has turned into an epidemic of ‘wage theft’. Wage theft is the popular term that has come to describe “under-or ...

Sshhhh, can you hear that? Listen carefully… listen, don’t make a sound! Can’t you hear it? Neither can I, but I know it’s coming. Every year I wait, and sure enough, it arrives. There is a request to ...

Monotremes are among the world’s strangest animals, mixing mammalian and reptilian characteristics in the one creature. When British scientists in the 18th Century first saw a platypus they dismissed ...

The Alice Springs crime wave gained widespread coverage in the past week. This crime wave and particularly the data on domestic violence assaults draws attention to a contentious issue that goes ...

Australia’s Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme has published its findings. And it’s a damning read. Various unnamed individuals are referred for potential civil or criminal investigation, but ...

The last few weeks have seen an escalation in racially motivated abuse towards people from Asian backgrounds, both here in Australia and around the world. But we’re also seeing this racism spark ...

Unlike New Zealanders, whose education is rich in Maori language, history and customs, most Australians have only a sketchy understanding of the traditions of their country’s first peoples.

It’s a perennial topic of conversation and even inspired the classic hit by Crowded House, Four Seasons in One Day – but why is Melbourne’s weather so changeable? Freak storms, heat waves and sudden ...