Margaret Burin

New mothers in Australia are expected to be back on their feet quickly after giving birth. But in many ancient cultures, the first weeks are a precious time to recover and bond with the baby.

In 21 countries, we asked photographers to capture snapshots of home and hope. Here’s what they saw.

On this one street, millions of dollars and hundreds of livelihoods are at stake. How will Australia’s longest shopping strip survive the long and bumpy road ahead?

One day, future generations will look back at the history we’re living right now, captured in these photos of a nation in shutdown.

Three Australian housemates have decided to make their self-isolation as joyful as possible, setting themselves a daily ‘quaranqueen’ costume challenge.

Scott Morrison says keeping schools open is in the national interest. But for principals like David Smillie, making that happen is getting more difficult by the day.

Amazon’s driving ambition is to provide online shoppers with cheap prices and deliver orders fast. Staff at its Melbourne warehouse say this mission results in a dehumanising, insecure and sometimes unsafe workplace.

We visited schools from one of the poorest and wealthiest suburbs in the same city and took a peek inside kids’ lunch boxes. Here’s what we found.

They’re not triplets, and none of them are twins, but these three brothers are all receiving their grade 12 results simultaneously, just two years after arriving in Australia.

Read the weird, funny and philosophical emails that people are sending to Melbourne's trees.