"The past generation has seen Australians become less likely to play a team sport, less likely to join a community group, less likely to volunteer and less likely to donate to charity," says ANDREW LEIGH.
"Pulling a Swifty" seems to have taken on a new meaning recently; be prepared for a price shock if you're flying out of Canberra to Sydney or Melbourne.
An angry father has hit out at Jetstar for booting his mother-in-law and children off a flight because, he says, they didn't pay a $35 bag check-in fee.
Record heat across the world profoundly impacted the global water cycle in 2023, contributing to severe storms, floods, megadroughts and bushfires, according to new new research.
"Volunteers might be just grist to the mill: here today and expelled tomorrow for good, bad or no reason", but legal columnist HUGH SELBY thinks they should have the right to a fair go when things go awry.
In a world-first study, researchers from the ANU, University of Canberra and University of SA have measured how a part of the brain is responsible for putting our loved one on a pedestal in that first flush of romance.
As an ardent owner of two West Highland white terriers ROSS FITZGERALD wonders if dogs can understand different languages and distinguish between them.