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Mateship might sound blokey, but our research shows women value it more highly than men

  Image: Shutterstock Mateship is an intrinsic part of Australian society, routinely discussed as an important national value. In 1999, Prime Minister John Howard even attempted to include mateship in the...

We studied 100 years of Australian fatherhood. Here’s how today’s dads differ from their grandfathers

      Author Kate Murphy’s grandfather, Geoff Murphy, posing with children Pete, Lynne and Mick in 1955. Author provided, Author...

Yeah, nah: Aussie slang hasn’t carked it, but we do want to know more about it

  Wes Mountain/The Conversation Writer C.R Read cautioned in 1853 “that Englishmen going to the Australian digging should search their souls...

For now, the Tokyo Olympics will go ahead. But at what cost?

 Picture: Koji Sasahara/AP/AAP With COVID-19 still running rampant in many parts of the world, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)...

Millennials are not the only ‘burnout generation’ (just ask the rest of us)

 Picture: Shuttlestock In her new book, Can’t Even, American journalist Anne Helen Peterson writes of how Millennials have become “the...

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