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The steady decline of mental health in young Aussies coincides with the launch and growth of Instagram and Snapchat in the 2010s, according to new research. The e61 Institute study found the average self-reported mental health score of females aged 15 to 24 declined by 11 per cent between 2011 and 2022, from 73 per […]

Artificial intelligence could create up to 200,000 jobs in Australia by the end of the decade, a surprising new report has found. The report, from the Tech Council of Australia named Meeting the AI Skills Boom, finds capitalising on billions of dollars of efficiency gains requires the country’s roughly 33,000 person AI workforce to increase […]

A grim bureaucratic tussle is jeopardising the safety of rough sleepers in Tasmania as a mobile sleeping pod and shower charity runs into roadblocks from the Launceston City Council. The issue stems from the paperwork required for charity Strike It Out to use its sleeping pod and mobile shower trailers in the city. The charity […]

A surprising new match has gone public for the first time at Canberra’s event of the season. Australian politicians, members of the media and other influential guests have dazzled at the annual Midwinter Ball, held in the Great Hall at Canberra’s Parliament House. This year, political duo Georgie Purcell and Josh Burns have stepped out […]

The student stabbed in the neck outside the University of Sydney has been identified as a “brilliant” neuroscience specialist who is recovering from the terrifying ordeal at home. Melvern Kurniawan, 22, was stabbed in the neck with a kitchen knife, allegedly by a 14-year-old boy, while walking to the university’s Brain and Mind Centre at […]

Millions of Aussies will have to suffer through almost a week of rain, after parts of the country woke up to the coldest morning so far this year. Melburnians woke up to temperatures of zero degrees on Wednesday morning. Residents in outer Melbourne were shivering with the mercury between –1 degrees and -3 degrees in […]

An Australian helicopter pilot remembered as “a beacon of light” has died fighting wildfires in Canada. Thomas Firth was working for Great Slave Helicopters in Fort Good Hope in the Northwest Territories when his helicopter crashed on June 28. His employer paid tribute to the father, saying it was with profound sadness they acknowledged the […]

An Australian hotel is rewarding guests for doing the one thing they’re expected to do when booking a room – sleep. Sleep tourism is a new travel trend seeing hotels around the world offering services from pillow menus to sleep experts, to help guests get a good nights rest. According to HTF Market Intelligence, the […]

NSW Police have arrested a young man and woman for a sweep of alleged offences linked to right-wing extremist thinking. The 19-year-old man and 20-year-old woman were taken into custody after police executed a search warrant at a home on Menzies Rd in Marsfield in Sydney’s northwest on Tuesday. “During a search of the home, […]

An urgent health warning has been issued after a traveller with measles landed in Melbourne, visiting a busy McDonalds and multiple high-traffic shops along the Great Ocean Road. The returning traveller was infectious and arrived from overseas on Tuesday June 25, before visiting a McDonalds near the airport, toy shops and grocery stores in the […]