The present scheme is for 18 weeks government-funded leave to care for a newborn. There is a separate “Dad and Partner” payment for two weeks.
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The visit will place pressure on Australia to belatedly move ahead with its commitments under an anti-torture protocol.
The binary star WR140 is surrounded by an astonishing array of nested shells of dust swirling into space.
In a range of ways, young Iranian women – with the support of men – are working to change their lives and with that, their country.
The risk of experiencing harm online is real, especially for children – but decades of research don’t support the alarmist tropes used in these conversations.
Worsening droughts and flooding likely threaten the future of cotton farming – by far the most important crop in the basin.
Climate change affects groups very differently. Here’s how Australians facing climate shifts now are responding.
While the Productivity Commission’s critique of the national housing agreement is justified, its faith in the market is not. The Albanese government is right to invest in building social housing.
A new list of 404 Australian mammal species is a crucial conservation step in the face of the ongoing extinction crisis.
A new report from IVF clinics across Australia and New Zealand has found male fertility is a factor in a third of couples seeking IVF.
Many people with disability – who are at increased risk of illness and death from COVID – continue to isolate at home to avoid infection and are effectively shut out of society.
Last week, the Senate inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and children found Indigenous women are eight times more likely to be murdered. What needs to happen?
In October 1942, Errol Flynn was one of the world’s biggest movie stars. When two teenage girls accused him of rape, his trial became a public spectacle and an insight into sexual double standards.
The livelihoods of millions of farmers depend on productive Arabica coffee. New research gives further impetus, if we needed any, to urgently cut emissions.
How you feel and how you use social media both affect each other – but one impacts the other more.
About two students in 30 will have developmental language disorder, making it as common as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and much more common than autism.
This isn’t the first dating app to intersect tech, dating, intimacy and politics.
The good news? Jobs are now less likely to be segregated by gender. Yet even now, some professions remain 99% male and 97% female.
Shaping up as an outspoken protagonist in the current “gas wars”, Industry Minister Ed Husic this week launched a barrage of criticism at the producers.
Rain has fallen across almost all of Australia’s mainland in the last two weeks. Our rain events are usually regional – not national like this.
Each year, enough fishing line to circle the Earth 18 times is lost at sea. This not only harms marine life, but also the livelihoods of fishers worldwide.
Rod Sims & Michelle Grattan
Michelle Grattan talks with Rod Sims, former chair of the ACCC, now a professor at the Australian National University's Crawford School for Public Policy, on tax, gas and the budget.
A small number of case reports indicate some people who have had dermal filler injections can experience swelling and discomfort after COVID infection or vaccination.
DART has forever changed the orbit of a small asteroid – and done so with much greater success than expected.
A powerful protest movement has taken hold in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini. It may affect change, but it is up against a ruthless regime that will not easily relinquish control.