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Cutting it fine

By Stuart Stirling on April 30, 2026

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Break-ing bad

By Connor Kidd on April 23, 2026

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By Bethany Tabi on April 23, 2026

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By Camila Egusquiza Santa Cruz on April 2, 2026

Pour form makes unhappy hour

By Adam Morolla on April 2, 2026

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Hot and bothered

By Duncan Bailey on December 2, 2021

As temperatures begin to climb for another hot summer, climate anxiety and helplessness is getting worse in young people.

The daily grind(r)

By Charlie Mills on December 2, 2021
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Just because someone is on gay dating app Grindr, doesn’t mean they want unsolicited explicit pics.

The political sisterhood

By Athina Hilman on December 1, 2021
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Will She Runs, a local impartial organisation helping women enter politics, create a more diverse political future?

These boots were made for walkin’

By Athina Hilman on December 1, 2021

Walking football is a gentler version of the sport that allows seniors to keep on enjoying the health and social benefits of playing on a team.

Tiktok tarot

By Paige Lundie on November 22, 2021

Entering the world of “WitchTok”: the occult, sorcery, live tarot readings and celebrity psychic predictions.

Spotify unwrapped

By Ruby Devlin on November 22, 2021

It’s become a seasonal fixture on social media, but is Spotify’s ‘Wrapped’ actually changing people’s listening behaviour for the worse?

Caffeine hit

By Matthew Ellul on November 18, 2021
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Global coffee prices have skyrocketed due to weather conditions and shipping increases. Who is going to absorb the cost?

Feeling the highs and lows

By Elizabeth Tan on November 17, 2021

Experts say low self-esteem can lead to anxiety and depression in young people.

The grey area

By Darcie Schlink on November 15, 2021
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Grey area drinking is the blurred space between end stage alcoholism and drinking occasionally. Are you in the grey?

Lost in the pandemic

By Yiying Li on November 10, 2021

Ethnic leaders say their communities deserve the same right to be informed as everyone in Australia.

What we don’t say

By Cason Ho on November 9, 2021

Intergenerational trauma among Asian migrants can lead to an inability to express emotions, even to their loved ones.

Road rage

By Sean Van Der Wielen on November 9, 2021
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The planned Bunbury Outer Ring Road has divided two communities on the city’s outskirts. Now the battle is reaching its bitter finale.

Hands off my heritage

By Lauren Smith on November 9, 2021

Aboriginal people say they have been left out of a review of the Act that is intended to protect their cultural heritage.

Dream more, stress less

By Jennifer Gautier on November 9, 2021

With the stress of the pandemic taking over everyday life, lucid dreaming could become a useful tool to combat our anxieties.

For the love of trees

By Ashleigh Davis on November 9, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Tree loss around Perth is causing ‘urban heat islands’. Different organisations are working in some of the hottest areas to green up the ‘burbs.

Hope in young hands

By Grace Burmas on November 9, 2021

The Australian disability sector is in critical need of support workers. Attracting more young people to the industry could be the solution.

Slow start for voluntary assisted dying

By Paige Lundie on November 8, 2021

A lack of VAD trained health professionals means the few registered doctors are struggling to meet demand.

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