What can parents do? Tim Olds, Amanda Watson and Carol Maher have some suggestions. The sun’s shining and there’s a trampoline in the backyard. Yet your kids want to spend their summer holidays lying on the couch playing computer games all day. So what can you do to...
Paul McGreevy and Melissa Starling look at ten common misconceptions about dog behaviour. It is difficult to refer to what dogs, as a collective, like and dislike and how they behave. Just as humans do, dogs all have their own personalities and learned preferences and so...
Summer holidays and Australians have entered our most dangerous time of year for fatal drownings, reports researcher Amy Peden. The eight days from Christmas Day to New Year’s Day are once again the deadliest period for drowning, with 201 lives lost over the past 15 years,...
Susie Emery writes that this year’s Digital Australia report found, as a country, Australians spent more time playing digital games than watching free-to-air TV during the 2020 and 2021 lockdowns. Whether you’re new to playing or you’re a seasoned gamer, what better way to celebrate Australia’s...
Dr Natasha Yates explains how to tell if it’s an emergency. I waited for hours in emergency last night with this dreadful headache, but eventually gave up and left. Should I have kept waiting at the hospital? This is a surprisingly common scenario I encounter as a...
Phone wet and won't turn on? asks Ritesh Chugh. Here’s how to deal with water damage (hint: soaking it in rice won’t work). Shutterstock If you’ve ever gotten your phone wet in the rain, dropped it in water or spilt liquid over it, you’re not alone. One...
Things are really jeffed up for Karens right now, write linguists Howard Manns and Kate Burridge The Miley (“coronavirus”) did a Melba (“made yet another a comeback”), and Joe and Jane Bloggs are being drongos. In the process, “Karen” has become the Bradman of ways for calling...
