Shalailah Medhora

Post-election analysis showed back in 2022 that the conservative side of politics was failing to attract younger voters. Why didn't it heed the warnings?

Dozens of young Australians reached out to Gabby Petito's family after a documentary series on her death launched in Australia

Every four days a homeless person aged between 15 and 24 dies, and the majority of deaths are due to suicide.

The proportion of only-child families has doubled since the 1980s but negative stereotypes about only children persist — despite them being based on flawed research from the late 1880s.

Funding for the group, which supports people going through miscarriage, stillbirth and baby and child death, had been set to run out on June 30. 

Young people are more than twice as likely to get forms of bowel cancer than older Australians were at the same age, and researchers have a few clues as to why.

New bulk-billing data shows a slight improvement to 77.5 per cent of GP visits being bulk-billed. The Royal Australian College of GPs says it has a plan to restore that rate to pre-COVID levels.

LGBTI+ advocates say the data can help inform government decisions about Australia's sex- and gender-diverse community.

New Australian research has found that young men are identifying as Christian and seeing the benefits of organised religion at much higher rates than women of the same generation.

Despite a cost-of-living crisis, young people aged 25 to 29 have had the biggest take-up of private health insurance over the last year.

A wide-ranging document on how to tackle racism in Australia has found existing measures are "ad-hoc" and "ineffective". 

More than one in four young people are experiencing serious threats of violence by a sibling, according to new research obtained by triple j hack.

Forced marriage is the most common form of human trafficking in Australia. We speak to a victim-survivor about how she escaped.

A multi-billion-dollar bid to bolster one of the lowest-paid sectors in the country is being rolled out by the federal government. Here's what's changing.

Recent figures from the Department of Education show the Job-Ready Graduate program has meant some students are forking out tens of thousands more for their degrees.

Young people's view of politics and political expression differs from older generations, and they're showing it by abandoning the two major parties.

Nuclear power is in the headlines a lot right now. So we ask energy experts to break down exactly what it is.

Witnessing family violence as a child can lead to a range of issues in adulthood yet support services for this vulnerable group are few and far between.

Australian trade unions have endorsed a campaign to end the junior wages scheme, which legally allows hospitality and retail employees under 21 to be paid less than their adult colleagues.

The average wait time to be assessed for the Disability Support Pension has tripled in four years. It's leaving people 'genuinely in crisis' without income support for months.

People with complex and ongoing mental health needs say the health system is letting them down.

Climate change-induced flooding has left thousands of people in northern Afghanistan without homes or livelihoods.

Fewer than two out of five voters under 40 voted for Labor at the last election. What does this year's budget say about the party's chances of hanging on to this vital demographic?

If you paid off your student loan within the past year, you could be entitled to a juicy little tax return.

The discrimination and bullying reported by non-binary trainee doctors in the latest Medical Training Survey is double the average for their male and female peers, and they are more likely to be considering dropping out.