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Why Kids Helpline’s crisis spike feels like a warning

Kids Helpline’s crisis spike suggests more young Australians are waiting until after dark, and too close to breaking point, to ask for help.

Dr Mira Joshi7 min read

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Laboratory test tubes and a clinician at work, signalling public-health attention on menopause care.
Wellbeing

Why menopause has finally made it into a national campaign

Australia’s menopause campaign marks a cultural shift: after years of patchy care and stigma, midlife symptoms are finally public-health business.

Dr Mira Joshi
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
Exterior of a Guzman y Gomez restaurant, used as the hero image for coverage of the chain's US exit.
Food Drink

Guzman y Gomez could conquer Australia. America was another story.

Guzman y Gomez's US exit shows how an Australian fast-food hit can feel singular at home and strangely generic in Chicago.

Henry Macarthur
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