A court ruling from the 1990s still influences how some abuse cases are prosecuted in Australia, leaving an evidence-based ...

In August 2016, Australia’s federal Department of Health published medical billing records of about 2.9 million Australians online. These records came from the Medicare Benefits Scheme (MBS) and the ...

Combining travel with remote work was once a relatively niche lifestyle. But these days, digital nomadism has matured into the mainstream. This surge in numbers – a reported 131 per cent growth ...

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 ...

The history of the quantum revolution is replete with famous names like Einstein, Bohr, Pauli, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, and others who have forever changed the way we think about the world. The smug ...

Australians like their pets, and for most of us by far, the dog remains our best friend. For the first time, the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey that covers 17,000 ...

In the beginning there was Day, that fundamental unit most simply determined by the rising and setting of our sun. Humanity went on to track the seasons, the cyclical passage of which came to be ...

Human beings have five senses – taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell. These senses help us navigate the world and act as warning signs of dangers. We use them to make everyday decisions; for example ...

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 ...

Winemaking can conjure bucolic images of rolling vineyards and bustling cellar doors, but romance is only one side of this major industry which contributes over A$40 billion to the Australia economy ...

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 ...

Deep in a northeast Kimberley rock shelter on Balanggarra Country is a two metre-long rock painting of a kangaroo. This kangaroo is now Australia’s oldest known, intact Aboriginal rock painting. The ...