Can a child legally take puberty blockers? What if their parents disagree?
Recent political attention might imply gender-affirming care is risky, controversial, perhaps even new. But Australian law ...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Albanese dumps Nature Positive legislation and considers shrinking the electoral reform bill
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joins us on the podcast to discuss the key issues affecting Australians, his experience in ...
Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico amp up the risk of a broader trade war
Trump’s new tariff war with Canada and Mexico shows his willingness to weaponise trade in pursuit of unrelated political ...
Leonardo da Vinci’s incredible studies of human anatomy still don’t get the recognition they deserve
The Italian Renaissance artist created groundbreaking depictions of humans at a time when the inner workings of the body ...
Teens on social media: Red, blue and purple states are all passing laws to restrict and protect adolescents
In 1998, long before the age of Instagram or TikTok, the federal government set a minimal baseline for internet safety for ...
Marianne Faithfull: the singer with an inimitable voice was a Romantic poet at heart
Marianne Faithfull, the London-born singer with an inimitable voice, has passed away at the age of 78. She was known for many ...
The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...
DeepSeek claims to have cured AI’s environmental headache. The Jevons paradox suggests it might make things worse
In the 1860s, economist William Stanley Jevons said more efficient coal furnaces simply meant more coal was burned.
South African troops are dying in the DRC: why they’re there and what’s going wrong
The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.
What happened in the German parliament and why is the far right hailing it as a ‘historic’ moment?
In a dramatic swing to the right, Friedrich Merz’s CDU is proposing Germany breaches EU law by closing its borders to ...
Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research
The world’s library of scientific papers is becoming contaminated as fraudsters use ‘paper mills’ to game scholarly ...
Exploring bacopa: the science behind the latest brain health trend
An Ayurvedic herb is causing a lot of excitement for it’s brain-boosting powers. Here’s what the evidence shows.