At 23, Will Seitam is simply overwhelmed at the joy he has found when he wasn’t even looking. On an unexceptional day in 2023, a message flashed on the screen of his phone. It was short, unexpected and startling.
An illusion of control seems precious when so much of life is uncertain.
General practitioners are the backbone of health care. But without increased rebates for longer consultations, the system will soon buckle.
Will has one of the rarest forms of childhood epilepsy, caught with a mixture of luck and ‘parental instinct’. It will take a trip to the Moon and Back to help him.
Diagnosed with a life limiting illness at five months, doctors told Jess Schonberger’s parents their first-born would not see her third birthday. What happened next has astounded everyone.
From your 20s to your 80s, these are tips for what you should be doing in each decade to live a long, healthy and enjoyable life.
What do you do when the man you love is diagnosed, at just 46, with dementia? For a long time Louise Bryant thought the answer was silence. But suddenly, that all changed.
He’s seen up close how people live around the world. So how is the Monty Python star faring at 81?
Just what is the typical Australian family? A new report finds family structures are increasingly diverse, and governments aren’t keeping up with the change.
If we’re not in a baby drought now, we soon may be, experts warn, unless Gen Z finds its mojo.
A startup is enabling prospective parents to screen their embryos for future health risks. ‘Your genetics is a lottery,’ says founder Noor Siddiqui, ‘why don’t we try to make it a little more fair?’
New technology is changing romance, and it’s impacting not just our hearts, but our heads. Here, a neuroscientist discusses how modern love is changing the dating landscape in our brains.
The revolution starts here: we’ve over-parented our kids – but let them run wild on social media. Now a growing movement of fed-up parents are fighting to keep kids off smartphones.
Smartphones are poisoning our children’s minds, says Jonathan Haidt. But it’s not too late to arrest the damage and send the kids out to play.
I’ve had to acknowledge that being in a lifelong relationship with a soulmate hasn’t happened with me. It took a long time for me to go, actually, that’s not a failure.
Social fabric is critical in urban design as we look to service some big demographic shifts.
Only by barring under-16s from social media can we break this toxic cycle of anxiety, addiction and mental ill-health.
In the end, like so many tragedies, a saga that spanned decades and inflicted so much grief was suddenly over. Kathleen Folbigg was free.
Babies raised in the isolation of the pandemic had an unexpected start to life, and the results are showing. What happened – and will it be permanent?
Two girls are born in different states, three years apart. More than half a century later, they ask for the same birthday present. What follows will change their lives.
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