Explainer: what treatment do young children receive for gender dysphoria and is it irreversible?

Sep 02, 2016 06:06 am UTC| Health Life

Preschoolers sex swap at age four, read the Daily Telegraphs headline on Thursday, sparking intense debate in the media over how to handle cases of young children experiencing gender dysphoria. The story detailed the...

How American policing fails neighborhoods -- and cops

Sep 02, 2016 06:02 am UTC| Law Life

How should we understand the violence, counterviolence and civil unrest that mark the current era in American policing? And, based on this understanding, what can we do to stop it? Rather than focus on the...

Graf all you want, but don't you dare be poor!

Sep 02, 2016 05:28 am UTC| Life

Increased evidence of homelessness in Melbournes iconic graffiti laneway, Hosier Lane, has prompted outrage from government and local business in recent weeks. After a number of negative media reports, homeless people...

Two miracles and 19 years later: why Mother Teresa's journey to sainthood took so long

Sep 01, 2016 09:14 am UTC| Life

The Catholic Church will formally make Mother Teresa of Calcutta a saint during a ceremony at the Vatican on September 4, a little under two decades since her death in 1997. To her admirers, she should have been...

Don't give up your day job ... little has changed for individual artists

Aug 31, 2016 10:44 am UTC| Life

One of the casualties of the ill-starred reorganisation of arts funding proposed last year by the then Minister for the Arts, Senator George Brandis, was support for individual artists. If his plan had gone ahead, it would...

You say tomato... why some fruits are forever doomed to be called veggies

Aug 31, 2016 10:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

When it comes to fruit and vegetables, the most common battleground (for parents and public health experts alike) is getting people to eat them. But theres a battle over semantics too, because many of the things we call...

Global Geopolitics Series

How victims of terror are remembered distorts perceptions of safety

Aug 29, 2016 08:42 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

Are Americans safe from terrorism? Forty-nine dead in Orlando, five in Dallas and three in Baton Rouge in 2016. Twelve dead in San Bernardino, three at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs and nine at a...