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 ...

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?

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Australian graduates face larger debts and a shrinking earnings advantage. Meanwhile, many students say they value the campus experience that online classes struggle to provide. What are they getting ...

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 ...

from their long flight south. Beside the dry clay trail In sunshine two bearded dragons warm. The first with arched back flattens half grown frills as we draw near and settles. The second further ...

Waleed Aly is one of our most incisive commentators on political and social topics. He moves beyond the immediate news items, with their slogans and dichotomies that characterise most commentary, and ...