From toddlers struggling with language development to teenagers lost in endless scrolling, screens are reshaping childhood.

The AFL and NRL have spent years tightening concussion rules. Yet the injuries now most troubling to doctors, players and ...

Slavery was illegal, yet Pacific Islanders were kidnapped, deceived and put to work in Australia. Ryan Butta’s history shows ...

Australia has welcomed a million refugees since the war. Yet some children arriving today face poverty, insecure housing and families caught in visa limbo. What does a welcome mean when the safety net ...

Tony Burke makes a careful case for managing migration. But as Australia tightens visa rules and expands detention, the question of whom the country is willing to protect becomes harder to avoid.

Ricky Gervais’s Alley Cats was savaged by critics. Some viewers laughed anyway. As comedians are urged to examine every joke for possible harm, has the pleasure of laughing at forbidden things become ...

Anthropic has tried to give Claude a moral compass, acknowledging that soon, AI may make more decisions on our behalf. So whose idea of right and wrong will be guiding those decisions?

Young adults are the loneliest age group in Australia, yet they are not the most socially isolated. What they lack is the feeling of being known.

From toddlers struggling with language development to teenagers lost in endless scrolling, screens are reshaping childhood. Madonna King examines the mounting evidence of harm and the difficult ...

At first reading, Pope Leo XIV’s first Encyclical reminded me of a fast bowler walking back to the fence before running in to bowl. Over a third of the document had passed before AI was discussed. The ...

Australia’s military forms an integral part of Australia’s national identity. The esteem accorded military service in the wider community is enormously deep and broad. This high status extends beyond ...

The Labor Government’s anti-gambling legislation has hit a snag. People on the ground dealing with the fallout and damage from online and broadcast gambling advertising are saying the proposed law won ...