Discretion has become rather unfashionable. We celebrate vulnerability and authenticity, but seem less interested in restraint, privacy and dignity.
If you can no longer have dinner with someone who votes differently without arguing, something has probably gone wrong.
Memory doesn’t work quite like a recording device. Remembering involves reconstruction, which leaves memories open to influence from things that happen afterwards.
The greatest risk may not be that today’s graduates lose their jobs but that tomorrow’s senior professionals never properly learn how to do them.
Women can have families and successful careers. What we can’t do is keep adding competing demands to our lives without eventually having to decide which ones matter most.
As a psychologist, what strikes me isn’t the ambition itself, it’s the anxiety that increasingly seems to accompany it.
Would our reaction be the same if a female Labor MP laughed that the attractive Socceroos are easy to watch?
The fury at Geelong Grammar for disciplining girls who went AWOL at its bush campus illustrates the trend of reframing every challenge or consequence as harmful.
We must have an honest conversation about a condition that can describe both a successful media personality and a person who will need lifelong care.
The challenges facing Millennials are real. But a system that concentrates its focus at one end while assuming resilience in the middle risks missing where strain is quietly building.
On April 25, we elevate courage and willingness to sacrifice as central to who we are. But in everyday life, those traits are often treated with more caution.
The crippling economic inequality between the young and old, especially for housing, is starting to show in attitudes towards the system of government.
What kind of society emerges when attachment to other human beings itself becomes a subscription service?
Before the Beckhams, there was Harry and Meghan. Estrangement is becoming not only more common, but more culturally sanctioned. Less tragic and more fashionable.
If the Albanese government intends this ban to be enforceable law, it must demonstrate a willingness to confront global technology companies when they fail to comply.
A risk facing Australian families is the belief that technological restriction will solve the broader psychological burdens placed on young people. It will not.
Can a taxpayer-funded media organisation remain genuinely impartial while participating in an ideological ranking system run by a lobby group?
If the changes focus only on tightening access and raising thresholds, we’ll treat the symptom, not the cause.
If the feminine qualities of care, empathy and moral courage anchor our social fabric, we should ask what happens when those qualities are weaponised.
The ever-stretching diagnosis and the infrequency with which children leave the scheme as they age mean future costs will dwarf today’s spending.
