ShutterstockAll Victorian school students will be learning remotely from Wednesday. Prior to the state’s premier Daniel Andrews announcing a tightening of restrictions over the weekend, only students in prep to...
ShutterstockAs Victorians face yet another long period of enforced lockdown, serious concerns are being raised about people’s capacity to comply with the new orders and the mental health impacts of...
ShutterstockIn Victoria, more than 1,100 health-care workers have now been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Some 11% of active cases are workers in the health-care sector.Health-care workers...
Universal PicturesIt wasn’t the first time I’d crashed a film set. My first was the 1984 film The Coolangatta Gold. You’ll recognise me in one of the shots because I’m...
ShutterstockOlder women have been recognised as the fastest-growing group of homeless people in Australia in recent years. Yet until now we have not known exactly how many older women are...
ShutterstockOlder women renters are struggling in an insecure and unaffordable rental housing market. A combination of high rents and low incomes leaves many living in substandard housing and unable to...
Dave Allen, Author providedGlaciers around the world are melting — and for the first time, we can now directly attribute annual ice loss to climate change.We analysed two years in...
Google MapsThroughout Australia, when land is rezoned from industrial to high-rise residential, a charge is levied to help fund the required infrastructure.In NSW it is called an infrastructure contribution.The NSW...
Left: imdb. Right: Volker Framenau Weaving creative, heartfelt or even risqué words into the formal Latin names for new species has long been common in taxonomy — the science of...
The announcement of stage 4 restrictions in Victoria marks a new, and depressing, stage in Australia’s response to COVID-19. The new measures will close non-essential retailers and most child-care centres...
ShutterstockHow do you occupy a child for long enough to get any work done?This will be the question confronting more than 150,000 Melbourne families for at least the next six...
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced sweeping changes to businesses across metropolitan Melbourne, including closure of retail stores and restrictions on some industries, including construction. The new constraints come into...
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