This isn't just another art review; this University of Melbourne exhibition is a must-see that challenges everything you ...

Unlike New Zealanders, whose education is rich in Maori language, history and customs, most Australians have only a sketchy understanding of the traditions of their country’s first peoples.

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 ...

All Australians have, to some extent, been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic but the economic effects haven’t been uniform, and some have been hit much worse than others. Hospitality has ...

Australia’s young adults are putting their traditional steps towards adulthood on hold – spending more time living in the parental home. In fact, just over half of young men (54 per cent) and 47 per ...

The Alice Springs crime wave gained widespread coverage in the past week. This crime wave and particularly the data on domestic violence assaults draws attention to a contentious issue that goes ...

You don’t necessarily need a working knowledge of evolutionary theory to know that in the animal kingdom, larger beasts tend to live longer than smaller ones. An elephant lives longer than a mouse; a ...

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 ...

Floating in a small jar of alcohol sits one of Australia’s rarest specimens. The jar, labelled collection number C5757, holds a juvenile Tasmanian tiger or thylacine, one of the best-preserved extinct ...

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 ...

It doesn’t take long, if you spend any time on social media, to come across a meme, reel or TikTok taking a side in the US actor Johnny Depp’s defamation case against his ex-wife, Amber Heard. Social ...