Perspectives

Home owners with keys. | Newsreel

New 5% home deposit scheme has started. What’s changed?

By Adrian Lee For many, the “Great Australian Dream” of owning a home has never felt further out of reach. Rising property values have convincingly outpaced income
Read more 1 October 2025
United Stated President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. | Newsreel

Trump’s Gaza peace plan. Will it succeed?

By Asher Kaufman The latest U.S.-sponsored peace plan for the Middle East has been unveiled at the White House and immediately accepted by Israeli Prime Minister
Read more 30 September 2025
Happy students. | Newsreel

Forget click-bait lists. Find the best school for your child

By Nicole Brownlie and Renee Desmarchelier Lists of Australia’s “top” schools regularly make headlines. We see this every year with Year 12 and NAPLAN results
Read more 29 September 2025
The famous 2001 Coke verses Pepsi ad - Newsreel

Why can’t we have Pepsi and Coke?

By Shane Rodgers The Ricky Gervais movie The Invention of Lying is set in a society where nobody can lie. One of my favourite scenes is when Gervais walks past an
Read more 29 September 2025
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. | Newsreel

Prime Minister Albanese’s full speech to the United Nations

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made his maiden address to the United Nations. Here is his speech in full:  Eighty years ago, the people of our nations
Read more 25 September 2025
Pregnant woman with headache.

Should I use paracetamol in pregnancy? Here’s the science

By Nicholas Wood and Debra Kennedy United States President Donald Trump has urged pregnant women to avoid paracetamol except in cases of extremely high fever, because of
Read more 24 September 2025
Cracked land. | Newsreel

Extreme heat risk to Northern Australia food bowl plans

By Steve Turton Australia’s worrying future under climate change was laid bare when the first National Climate Risk Assessment was released recently. It revealed
Read more 23 September 2025
Child and AI chatbot. | Newsreel

Suicide-by-chatbot puts Big Tech in liability hot seat

By Brian Downing It is a sad fact of online life that users search for information about suicide. In the earliest days of the internet, bulletin boards featured suicide
Read more 22 September 2025
Map of world in rainforest. | Newsreel

Climate change target announcement in the PM’s words

By Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Today, we’re announcing Australia’s next step in acting on climate change and seizing the economic opportunity before our
Read more 18 September 2025
Young people on phones. | Newsreel

Youth more at risk of seeing raw violence online

By Samuel Cornell and T.J. Thomson When news broke last week that US political influencer Charlie Kirk had been shot at an event at Utah Valley University, millions of
Read more 17 September 2025