I don’t have a mortgage, why should I care about the cash rate?
Yesterday the Reserve Bank of Australia announced that they were holding the cash rate at 4.35% - the same position since November, 2023. While this decision came as no shock to the majority of econo...
18 Jun 202422min
Inside the top-secret bunker where your most sensitive data is held
Have you ever thought about the physical places where our most sensitive and private digital information is stored? Around Australia lie ultra-secure databases that host everything from your medical ...
18 Jun 202412min
Panda Propaganda: Why China is sending us diplomacy bears
China’s long history of panda diplomacy is back in the headlines. Governments trading native animals is nothing new and can form a key part of diplomatic relations, but how did trading pandas become a...
17 Jun 202422min
Opening the sealed section of labia shame with a former Dolly Doctor
New research released today from Women’s Health Victoria is showing a sad state of affairs for how people see their genitalia in 2024. The research, which includes a nationally representative YouGov s...
17 Jun 202413min
Should free-to-air sport be an Australian right?
New research has found 69 per cent of Australians access TV via the internet and millions will miss out on watching sport if proposed anti-siphoning laws are not applied to streaming services. A new s...
16 Jun 202422min
Two Broke Chicks on good conflict with friends
Sally McMullen and Alexandra Hourigan describe themselves as just two chicks trying to navigate their 20s and their love of online shopping. The duo turned their friendship and passion of scoring a ba...
14 Jun 202440min
Dumbo, Babar and Heffalump: Elephants have names for each other
Animals communicate with one another all the time, but few species have the ability to call each other by individual names. Dolphins are known to invent their own signature whistle as names, while par...
14 Jun 202412min
Monkeypox is on the rise. This is what you need to know
There's been a surprising spike this year in the number of Monkeypox cases internationally and in Australia. In a post-pandemic world, fears of a virus that could spread amongst large groups of people...
13 Jun 202416min
