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Your exam secret weapon: Words of wisdom from TikTok tutors

From classroom teachers to uni students, a new breed of tech-savvy educators are giving year 12s an exam edge – on a platform best known for memes and dance videos.

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Susie O’Brien: Watch out for this item on school camp lists

My son’s camp list contained an item that made me nostalgic for the era of dictionaries, street directories and cameras with film. How do we explain these items to our offspring?

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Let them be kids: Nick Leech, 15, Is taking part in a world first study tracking the impact the social media ban will have on teens’ mental health and daily lives. Supplied,

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I’m 15 — this is how I think life will change after the social media ban

Teenagers are being offered cash to do this in the weeks before and after Australia enforces the world’s first under-16 platform ban in less than two months. SEE THE DETAILS

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Gen ZÃers Sophie Bator, 11, Sadie Mataira, Jacob Brennan, Charlie Brennan, 8 in Rundle Mall. Pictured on 8th October 2025. Picture: Ben Clark

‘Sigma, skibidi, delulu’: Decoding Gen Alpha’s baffling new language

Have you heard your kids shouting “6-7” and had no idea what they’re talking about? You’re not the only one.

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Apple Pay for St.George, BankSA and Bank of Melbourne customers has been rolled out on December 19, 2019.Picture: Supplied

Will cash be dead by 2030? This tech could be the nail in its coffin

The wallet is set to go the way of the dinosaur in a matter of years, with new tech meaning Aussies won’t need to carry cards or cash.

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Five people at different ages texting seperately on mobile phone. Picture: iStock

Australia’s biggest phone addicts revealed – and it’s not who you think

We worry about screen-addicted kids and laugh at Insta-obsessed mums but a new Aussie study has exposed a surprising group as the biggest phone junkies of all.

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Marty McFly uses a landline phone in Back to the Future.

Back to the future: Can 1980s tech save kids from social media?

Landline phones are making a comeback as families embrace old technology to help their screen-addicted teens. Now we just need to teach them how that rotating dial works …

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Sewell Seltzer took his own life at the urging of an AI chatbot, an American lawsuit alleges.

‘Come home to me’: Teen tragedy triggered by seductive AI chatbot

This teenage boy developed a close bond with his sexy and sympathetic AI chatbot “friend”. And then one day, the chatbot encouraged him to take his own life.

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Soulless AI chatbots driving girls down the path to anorexia

‘You’re not dying, you’re improving.’ Schoolgirls are turning to artificial intelligence chatbots for motivation to lose weight – and being given toxic advice verging on sadistic cruelty.

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Dark feminine influencer Kanika Batra. Picture: Instagram @kanikabatra

Sex, money, manipulation: ‘Dark feminine’ icons sell a toxic path to love

You’ve heard of women-hating incels – now meet the ‘femosphere’ flipside, where glamorous influencers amass millions of followers by teaching women to manipulate men for money.

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An AI image of a child being rescued from floods that went viral on Facebook because many older users didn't realise it was fake.

Fakebook kids: Social media giant harvests your child’s photos to train AI

Your innocent family photos may be being used to train Facebook’s artificial intelligence app to create AI deepfakes. Here’s how to stop it happening.

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Bruce Perry, 17, demonstrates the possibilities of artificial intelligence by creating an AI companion on Character AI, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in Russellville, Ark. (AP Photo/Katie Adkins)

Your child’s ChatGPT ‘bestie’: What every parent needs to know

Aussie kids are increasingly beating loneliness by confiding in artificial intelligence chatbots – but there’s a dark side to their new AI “friends”.

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DAILY TELEGRAPH JANUARY 21, 2025. High Steaks with sexual consent campaigner and author Chanel Contos at Merivale's Felix restaurant in the Sydney CBD. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Sex education crusader’s new mission – explaining porn to kids

The average Aussie child is just 11 when they’re first exposed to pornography. That’s why Chanel Contos is on a mission to introduce “porn literacy” into the national curriculum.

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Angela Mollard , New Dinkus, Photo: Steven Chee/Stellar.

‘I was right to call out Hamish Blake on this parenting faux pas’

Angela Mollard took aim at one of Australia’s favourite celebrity couples after they kept sharing pictures of their kids online. It wasn’t long before they gave her a call.

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