Older Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds are facing real challenges as a result of digital exclusion, and the ever-increasing digitisation of modern life has ...

A casual scroll through the real estate ads of suburban Melbourne reveals a popular feature: modern houses and renovations prioritising an ‘indoor-outdoor flow’. This commonly used design term means ...

TikTok has a lot to answer for. Even before you consider its implications for national security, TikTok is responsible for more dance challenges than you can shake a leg at, a national shortage of ...

For a country with 34,000 kilometres of coastline, it may not come as a surprise that swimming is the most popular form of recreation and physical activity for Australian children aged 0 to 14 years ...

On the first of his 1,461 days in office, President Trump hit the ground running, signing a series of executive orders with a range of sweeping implications for US domestic and international policies.

Welcome to the age of the blob internet, a time in which the world wide web is overrun by bots automated to spam us, imitate us and ensure that we are all stuck picking fire hydrants from six ...

Ageing or living with a disability can be a confronting experience for many older people and their families. Add to this the difficulties of living in another country, experiencing language barriers ...

This work was funded by the Victorian Government Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, ...

Mis- and disinformation have once again been named the top global risk of the immediate term in the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report 2025. This comes just days after Meta ...

We have known for some time now that people living in rural areas experience poorer health than their metropolitan counterparts, largely due to uneven distribution of the health workforce and ...

In Part Two of this series, we explore what some of the University of Melbourne’s academics and researchers were watching, reading or listening to in 2024 that gave them unexpected insights, new ways ...

From developments in artificial intelligence (AI) to the impact of disinformation on democracy, 2024 was a year marked by big social, technological, political and economic shifts. And sometimes we all ...