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- Victoria’s New Home Warranty Rules Are Live. Here’s What They Mean If Your Roof Needs Work
- Torn your ACL? Here’s what nobody tells you about the surgery bill
- What’s driving the shift to feature timber fencing in Melbourne’s outer suburbs
- Dementia care at home on the Central Coast: what families need to know
- Daylight Saving: The Half-Yearly Ritual We Can’t Seem to Quit
- Regional Travel Gems: Hidden Towns Near Melbourne to Visit This Weekend
- Troubled Waters: New Zealand’s Cruise Industry Faces a Perfect Storm
- Sydney’s Allianz Stadium to Shut for 10 Weeks to Fix Drainage Issues
- Small Communities, Big Impact: How Local Australians Are Driving Climate Action
- The Rise of Digital Diplomacy: How Social Media Is Shaping Global Politics
- Cultural Diplomacy: How Art and Music Are Bridging International Divides
- The Pets Aussie Animal Lovers Are Banned from Owning
- Trump’s Tariff Gamble Risks Economic Fallout at Home and Abroad
- Budget Family Accommodation in Sydney
LATEST ARTICLES
There’s a photo of me at my cousin’s wedding, must be seven or eight years ago now, where I’m mid-laugh with my hand halfway to my mouth. I didn’t even clock that I’d done it at the time. It only registered later, scrolling the album she’d shared, when I noticed I was doing the exact […]
A change that started at the front boundary is quietly reshaping how new estates present themselves to the street. Drive through any of Melbourne’s growth corridors today, Wyndham, Melton, Whittlesea, Casey and Cardinia, and the humble paling fence is having something of a moment. Front boundaries that would once have disappeared behind a hedge are […]
A while back, a friend of mine got a call from his mum in The Entrance. She wanted to know why he hadn’t come up for lunch. He had. The day before. They’d had fish and chips by the water and she’d complained about the pelicans the whole time. He laughed it off on the […]
Australia’s aged care sector is under more pressure than it has been in decades. A recent analysis from CEDA, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, found the country is short by at least 110,000 direct aged care workers within the next ten years, a gap that could balloon past 400,000 by 2050 without serious […]
Australia is in the middle of a full-scale tobacco war, and the casualties are not all who you might expect. The public conversation has focused, reasonably enough, on cheap counterfeit cigarettes, firebombed convenience stores, and crime syndicates running what amounts to a parallel economy beneath the noses of regulators. But somewhere in the wreckage of […]
There comes a moment in every parent’s life where their kid starts asking for a phone. Maybe it’s because they’re walking to school on their own, or they want to message their grandmother, or they’ve just decided that not having a phone is, like, the worst thing that has ever happened to anyone ever. The […]
As of June 1, free public transport in Victoria is done. Two months of riding trains, trams and buses without touching your myki balance — and now that window has closed. But before you start dreading your commute costs, it’s worth actually looking at the numbers. Because what’s replaced it is still pretty good. From […]
Over the past few years, the way Australians work has changed dramatically. What began as a temporary response to lockdowns and public health measures quickly evolved into a long-term shift in workplace culture. For many employees, working from home is no longer viewed as a short-term arrangement, it has become an expectation. As businesses continue […]