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ANZGOG State of the Nation uterine cancer awareness report cover

The cancer too many women still cannot name

Uterine cancer is rising in Australia, yet awareness is thin. The gap is about symptoms, language and how women are heard.

Dr Mira Joshi8 min read

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Beauty products on a vanity table
Beauty

Australian beauty is done buying the dream

Australian beauty shoppers are buying for proof, price and trust, not old-school glamour, as routines get tighter and claims face harder scrutiny.

Tahlia Park
A therapist listening during a counselling session, reflecting the intimate scale of mental health care behind the global numbers.
Wellbeing

A giant mental-health number shrinks in the waiting room

Mental health care in Australia still feels like waitlists, gaps and cost, even as new global burden data makes the crisis look bigger than ever.

Dr Mira Joshi
Vitamins and supplements on a kitchen table beside a cup
Wellbeing

The 35-pill morning: what supplement culture is asking women to swallow

Kim Kardashian has pill fatigue from 35 daily supplements. The $480B wellness machine has turned health into a full-time job — and women are doing the swallowing.

Dr Mira Joshi
Payroll and superannuation paperwork on a desk
Money Career

The super rise you notice late, and the payday shift behind it

The SG is now 12 per cent, but the more meaningful change may be 2026's payday-super rule, which makes retirement money show up in working life sooner and go missing less quietly.

Ben Russo
Two female healthcare workers in a clinical office, reviewing diagnostic results on a computer screen.
Wellbeing

Why mammogram advice never feels simple

Australia's breast-screening rules look tidy online. Real life feels messier, because public-health guidance and personal risk are not the same thing.

Dr Mira Joshi
A teenager reading on a couch
Wellbeing

What Australian teenagers are doing instead of doomscrolling

Five months into Australia's under-16 social media ban, the revealing question is not who won the policy argument, but what replaced the scroll.

Dr Mira Joshi
A blue suitcase with a passport in an empty airport terminal at night.
Travel

When the American holiday starts feeling invasive

A new ESTA proposal is colliding with cost and mood, turning the once-default US trip into a holiday many Australians no longer feel like justifying.

Cleo Tasman
Rear view of a man with headphones standing at a subway platform, blurred train passing by.
Culture

Twelve million Australians are streaming music. The old monoculture is gone

A Roy Morgan-backed report says 12.7 million Australians now stream music. The bigger story is cultural: our listening has become private, mood-led and less local, and the shared soundtrack feels thinner for it.

Jordan Atkinson