Ramadan begins tonight, here’s what you need to know

The new moon is expected to be sighted tonight, which signifies the beginning of the sacred month of Ramadan for Muslim communities worldwide. The practice of fasting from dawn to dusk is one of the most holy rituals for Muslim people, so here is everything you need...

The cost of living is the highest it’s been in 20 years – Luckily, TikTok favourite ‘Jennnnaaayy’ knows how to feed your family for less.

It is no secret that the cost of living is rising - quickly - and it's expected to keep rising throughout 2023. Australians are tightening their spending and saying no to items they normally wouldn’t think twice about.  Collaborative database Expatisan has ranked...

Thrift-shopping: The future of fashion

While rapper Macklemore and Gen Z have romanticised thrift-shopping as ‘trendy’, its true worth is hidden in its impact on the environment and clothing sweatshops. When you walk into a thrift store, do you turn your nose up at the smell of musty clothing and dusty...

The handicap of tea and scones

What group is against petroleum exploration licenses on agricultural land, lobbies to resolve female homelessness in Australia and put 'best before' dates on food jars? Is it Lock The Gate? Is it the Australian Consumers Association? Is it Shelter? In fact, it's The...

Has the sun set on Australian surfing?

Image sourced from 7News   The dominance of Australian competitive surfing has diminished in the last decade. The sun and sand culture of Australia has produced multiple world surfing champions and for a time, these athletes of green and gold were perched at the...

‘Unfinished business’: the campaign to save Willow Grove

Content warning: this story contains discussion of colonial violence and other themes that may be distressing to First Peoples of Australia. The New South Wales Government announced in 2015 it planned to relocate the Powerhouse Museum to Western Sydney. The backlash...

A most wholesome and continentally-isolated streamer

In the gaming world, Australia couldn’t be more isolated. A comparatively tiny, mostly English-speaking, pocket of the world that shares timezones only with Asia, and which is practically a universe unto itself in video games and streaming. How does someone not only...

Local woman and her charity bettering lives across the globe

A Helensburgh woman is changing lives in Africa as her charity celebrates the success of the opening of its second school and sets its sights on new impactful projects. Sayari Nyuki charity founder Maeve Turner, 21 partnered with Tanzanian non-government organisation...

The teacher who dislikes school

Alan Poole is not your average high school teacher. He has a complicated relationship with authority, an alternative view of education and a deep dislike of the physical and metaphorical four walls of the classroom. Currently teaching in the Kimberley Region of...

Sussex Inlet student photographer captures his family’s battle with bushfire ‘Beast’

"Through December 2019 and January 2020, the Currowan and Tianjara bushfires threatened our family home near Sussex Inlet on the South Coast of New South Wales. Through these images, my intention has been to capture the personal emotion of the event and also the...