Melanie Charlton writes about innovative ways to satisfy her children’s desire for a pet (particularly at Christmas) without bearing all the responsibility of owning one. It was a rainy Saturday afternoon, and the kids were agitated at being stuck indoors, so I suggested we go to...
Mia Cobb looks at the science of happier dogs and tips to keep them happy When you hear about “science focused on how dogs can live their best lives with us”, it sounds like an imaginary job made up by a child. However, the field of...
Prudence Flowers reports that the debates in the United States tell us why The 2022 news that the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v Wade and ended the constitutional right to abortion sent shockwaves around the world. For Australian opponents of abortion who had long looked...
A CQUniversity study led by Rebecca Brown found that FIFO and DIDO workers and their partners experience similar levels of life satisfaction and loneliness as other Australian parents. However, challenges arise around parenting teamwork, emotional adjustment, and maintaining family relationships due to the nature of remote...
A new study into suicide rates within Australia highlights those most at risk including a rise in deaths by suicide amongst young people. Teenage expert and award winning speaker Michelle Mitchell has over twenty years of experience tackling the distressing, confusing and fraught issue of suicide,...
Horror movies in the spotlight The Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) will urge the Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA), in its review of its code of ethics, to tighten rules around the content of public advertising and trailers on television used to...
As a urogynaecologist, writes Jennifer King I care exclusively for women with pelvic floor problems. These are the women with leaking bladders and weak supporting tissues allowing the vaginal walls to bulge outside. Pelvic organ prolapse can be distressing or embarrassing and interfere with everyday...
Trigger warnings are increasingly used in Universities and are growing now in the wider world, report Jessica Gildersleeve, India Bryce and Kate Cantrell Last year, London’s Globe Theatre attached a trigger warning to Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, advising it “contains depictions of suicide, moments of violence,...
Chris Zomer and Sumudu Mallawaarachchi show you 3 things you can do about it. Ever found yourself unable to resist checking out a social media notification? Or sending a random picture just to keep a Snapchat “streak” going? Or simply getting stuck staring at YouTube because it...
I think my child is having panic attacks. What should we do? Gemma Sicouri, Annabel Songco, Chloe Lim and Jennie Hudson look at the symptoms and what to look out for. In the movie Inside Out 2, 13-year-old Riley, who has recently started puberty, has a...
