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‘We want to be ourselves’: Students are teaching us a gender lesson
For gender-questioning teens, it can be a complex, tortuous, lonely and liberating time: a time for parents, schools, politicians and the wider community to help, not hurt.
- by Madonna King
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You can complain about how cold it is, just don’t call it a ‘polar vortex’
When is a weather term clear and accurate? When is it overblown? And what’s the forecast for terms we’ll be hearing more often?
- by Stuart Layt
Home-town heroes: local candidates’ triumphant run in polls
The federal election results showed the power of authentic community-based candidates as many voters drift away from the major parties.
- by Matthew Knott
The Ukrainian women determined to keep working
Displaced Ukrainian women have not only left their husbands and homeland, but also prosperous careers. Now, on the other side of the world, these resilient women are determined to resume their professional lives in Australia.
- by Tom Canetti
Who’s living in fantasy land? As the election recedes, the politics of COVID re-emerges
Some have accused those who are most worried about COVID-19 of stoking fear with the same sorts of arguments as anti-vaxxers.
- by Michael Koziol
People are spending $7500 on keyboards. Maybe you should, too
If you spend most of your day touching a keyboard, why not make it a good one? Like, really good.
- by Kat Wong
What goes around: 100 firms are making plastics a global problem
As international and regional organisations seem to be getting more ambitious in curtailing plastic pollution, the corporate sector looks to be lagging.
- by J.J. Rose
It’s every actor’s anxiety dream, and COVID is making it real
Mid-morning, Alexandra Aldrich got a phone call telling her that night she would be on stage playing a role she had never rehearsed.
- by Nick Miller
‘Tsunami of cultural change’: The battle over Australia’s museums
A culture war has enveloped the world’s museum directors, but inside Australia’s cultural institutions the debate seems to have been won .
- by Andrew Taylor
Tom Cruise by the numbers: What makes him one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars?
With Top Gun: Maverick about to open we look at what the box office shows about Cruise’s star power, and how his relationships and stunts have shaped his career.
- by Garry Maddox
The workout-from-home era is over. Can Apple’s virtual gym survive?
The launch of Fitness+ was perfectly timed for the pandemic. But how loyal will Apple users be to their Watch workouts in our new (old) world.
- by Sam Downing