The porn industry has been smuttying up pop culture for decades, and zombie porn just reflects our weird appetites, says a ...

A new exhibition celebrating the brilliance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, while confronting the dark heart of Australia’s colonial history, has opened at the University of Melbourne’s ...

Big pharma is big carbon, but multi-billion-dollar drug companies have a mixed record on efforts towards net-zero, say University of Melbourne experts ...

From the inferno of Black Thursday in 1851 to the devastation of Black Summer starting at the end of 2019, bushfires have a powerful legacy in post-European settlement Victoria. These fires have not ...

In 1963, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe were experiencing economic decline and people were demanding independence from France. Mainland France, meanwhile, was in desperate ...

Major cities worldwide – including within Australia – are running out of cemetery space. Australia has over 6,300 cemeteries, yet a fraction of these remain operational. Cremation is the main ...

Head, Department of Surgery, Melbourne Medical School – Western Precinct, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne; Acting Head, Colorectal Unit, Western Health; ...

The gig economy is rapidly reshaping urban life. The way we shop, eat and travel has been transformed by apps and the workforce behind them. Yet digital labour platforms do not provide their employees ...

My brother, a 60-year-old Aboriginal man, recently had a heart attack in a public park on a sunny Sunday whilst celebrating the birthday of his three-year-old granddaughter. He went into cardiac ...

In 1834, the Henty brothers established the first permanent European settlement in Victoria at Portland on unceded Gunditjmara Country. This marked the beginning of violent colonisation in the state, ...

In its standard definition, the word ‘rare’ describes something that doesn’t happen very often. So families who receive a diagnosis of a ‘rare genetic disease’ understandably feel isolated and that ...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism are in the news as never before. Media attention is at an all-time high, demand for diagnostic assessments ...