Catherine Taylor

Across Australia, households on six figure incomes are struggling to pay the rent or mortgages – let alone afford little luxuries. Others are delaying retirement or working extra jobs to pay the bills.

Many of the risk factors for dementia – being female, growing older and the genetic lottery — cannot be avoided. But research is uncovering a growing list of ways to cut your risk.

For centuries, human societies have been supercharged by the arrival of disruptive technology so remarkable they changed the trajectory of human history. The next one has already arrived.

Kamel El Basha fell in love with acting as a child and his first theatre was a window of his home in Jerusalem where he would perform his own plays for the neighbourhood kids. 

Overtime is an increasingly vexed issue, with some workers pushed to the brink by unreasonable unpaid work. But how many additional hours are too many? When should employees be paid for extra work?

How does a clarinettist who was a national Lego champion as a boy, a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, whose first wife was a famous author and comedian and second, the daughter of an Australian prime minister, end up widely known as a media executive?

Genes, environment and lifestyle are some of the risk factors for serious diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. This is why scientists believe COVID-19 infection should be added to the list, writes Catherine Taylor.

Australians spend an average of 31 years of their lives on a diet yet we remain one of the most statistically overweight people in the world. Does anything work to shift unwanted kilos?

Burnout is now such a specific experience that researchers are investigating whether it should be included as a mental health condition in its own right, alongside psychological illnesses like anxiety or depression, with which burnout is frequently confused. And this Australian research is at the cutting edge.

A Qantas engineer made an error that released hundreds of oxygen masks but failed to accurately document the problem. As engineers strike over pay, profit results are released and a jet base insider reveals widespread stress among staff, what can we learn about an airline under pressure?