News Archive

  It’s one of those perfect autumn mornings in Bondi. The air is crisp and clean; the sun is still low in the sky without a cloud for company. A fresh breeze blows in off the ocean. Surfers dot the wave break …

Italy’s unemployment rate hit a new record in May with almost half the country’s young now looking for work. Youth unemployment is approaching stratospheric levels of more than 42 per cent, the highest data ever, with a proportion of four jobless out …

  In 2004, three palaeontologists found a fossilised fish that might have been the first back-boned animal to venture onto land, a venture with fundamental consequences for us all. Called Tiktaalik, this fish had a neck, shoulders, and fins with primitive elbows …

Thousands of local nursing graduates are desperately unemployed despite large numbers of international nurses being recruited under the 457 Visa Programme. An independent review panel has been appointed by the Federal Government to assess current regulations regarding employers recruiting offshore skilled labour …

The great thing about modern life is you can do so much, and the curse of modern life is you can do so much. Do you have a cellphone obsessive compulsive disorder, like an itch you have to scratch, like Pavlov’s dog, …

Rosina Ellis was just 20 years old when a bout of Glandular Fever triggered symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Two years of tests and another ten months of psychological therapy later, she now lives a happy life while managing her symptoms. But …

  It is 5.48 pm on a Thursday evening in a busy Newtown café and instead of listening to Ady Seastres’s answer to what she’d like to drink, I am too busy admiring her impeccably tailored jacket. The jacket itself is beautiful, …

Sydney’s inner west parents are concerned that Marrickville Council is putting dogs before children after a dog attack in Henson Park. Police are looking for the red cattle dog’s elderly female owner who left the scene refusing to give her details. The dog …

“We want leaders who are willing to stand up and declare LGBT rights are human rights”: Activists in Jakarta on International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, 17 May As Indonesia’s parliamentary and presidential elections approach and political campaigning gathers force, attention turns to human …

In the wake of Julie Bishop’s ‘new aid paradigm’ announcement, and as we reach the end of the ‘age of entitlement’ and prepare for some heavy lifting, Ruth Cooper investigates the Abbott government’s approach to foreign aid. From revolting students to pensioners …