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With loneliness on the rise, people are paying strangers to cuddle them. But is it therapy, companionship, or something else entirely? When a young man arrived for a cuddle session with Jerika, he could barely make eye contact. Fresh out of university, …

  For over a hundred years, the Yiu Ming Temple has stood on Sydney’s Retreat Street, nestled among factories and apartment buildings, enduring the city’s changes.   Founded in 1909 by migrants from Gaoyao and Gaoming in Guangdong, Southern China, it served not only as a place …

On Thursday, 19 February 2026, the community celebrated the official opening of Rosebery Plaza at 81 Epsom Road. As one of the most significant community‑focused commercial developments in Sydney’s southeast living corridor in recent years, the opening marked not just the activation …

Australia’s party system was once dominated by Labor and the Coalition, but now it has shifted from a near two-party system where independents and minor parties took about 4 per cent of the national primary vote in 1975 to a landscape where …

“Since when did we start normalising paying ten dollars for a drink?” my friend asks. It’s a breezy Sunday morning, and we’re basking in the sun on the veranda of a brunch café when her question catches me off guard. I look …

On October 13, 2025, the Nobel Prize Committee announced it would award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences jointly to Joel Mokyr, Phillippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt. The prize was awarded to the three parties “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” …

The Chinese Australian Forum (CAF) celebrated 40 years with a sold-out dinner at Westfield Chatswood Sydney on September 5, joined by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, MPs and community leaders. Federal MPs in the room included Andrew Charlton (Parramatta), Sally Sitou (Reid), Ash …

What protesters and the organisers of the Harbour Bridge Protest hoped the world would see seems to have taken root. A Taiwanese pro-Palestinian activist with a background in sociology (who asked not to be named) said she was “amazed” when she saw …

On August 24, Australia will witness its largest nationwide pro-Palestinian rally since the August 3 protest on the Sydney Habour Bridge demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. The demand is now more intense in the wake of the recent UN-backed IPC famine review …

Backlog at New Migration Tribunal: Critics Decry ‘Jobs for Mates’ as Agent Blames Stricter Visa Rules A former Labor politician (who prefers not to be named) has criticised the Albanese government’s new Administrative Review Tribunal (ART), claiming it has failed to deliver …