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Newsrooms are still fighting to honour press freedom despite government pressure, competition with social media platforms and declining trust in the media.

Rowena Mobbs has urged Netball Australia to update its concussion policy, in the same week its submission to the senate's parliamentary inquiry was made public.

From child labor to unethical environmental approaches, chocolate companies can be rife with problematic practices

This Easter it is possible to support firms that are making profits without hurting the planet or its inhabitants.

New research has shown that video games can change the brains of teenagers. But reducing screen time has seen remarkable repairs.

Push by parliamentary MPs to take up IHRA interpretation has been criticised as an ‘outright attack on academic freedom’

Experts urge swimmers to be cautious as more sharks are in the local estuaries at this time of year

We know everything in our homes gathers dust. What you probably don’t know is whether there are toxic contaminants in your house dust, and where these might come from.

Exclusive: With almost no publicly available information about ‘Apods’, researchers say the lack of transparency is concerning for human rights

Macquarie University economist Sean Turnell is free and living in Sydney after 650 days of imprisonment in Myanmar, for what appears to be the “crime” of doing an economist’s job, which is trying to make people’s lives better – in this case the lives of the people of Myanmar.

The nature of the construction industry makes it very vulnerable to modern slavery. Addressing the problem will take more than just legislation.