Stay safe these school holidays
Healthy Harold loves school holidays and spending time with his family and friends – here are some of Life Ed’s top safety tips for having lots of fun while enjoying a beautiful Australian summer
Healthy Harold loves school holidays and spending time with his family and friends – here are some of Life Ed’s top safety tips for having lots of fun while enjoying a beautiful Australian summer
A world-first reform establishing 16 as the minimum legal age to use social media platforms like TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook has passed both Houses of Parliament in Australia
The tragic loss of Australian teenagers Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles this past week was felt around the nation, as captured in cartoonist Mark Knight’s poignant picture of youth and beauty
Uncertainty over whether popular messaging app Snapchat would be included in Australia’s social media reforms has been cleared up with the Government introducing the legislation to parliament
Authorities are monitoring beaches along the eastern seaboard as migrating bird dying of ‘malnutrition’ wash ashore, with bird flu experts on alert in the bid to keep H5N1 out of Australia
Australia is poised to be the first country in the world to impose a minimum social media age of 16 as the PM asks states and territories to back the change to protect kids from online harms
Healthy Harold and his mates thought they were safe online while building a fun new game together – but things soon went wrong so they got help and came up with a simple code for other kids
In a world-first medical trial, an Australian patient has received human-like skin grown in a lab to treat severe burns – a major breakthrough doctors say could improve healing and save lives
More than 20,000 Aussie schoolchildren have given up social media for 24 hours, as part of a national campaign to highlight the dangers – WARNING: RED LEVEL (SECONDARY ONLY)
What raises the risk of developing peanut allergies – and what changes could “help turn the tide” on the rise in food sensitivities – has been revealed for the first time by an Australian team
Australia’s deadliest spider might become humanity’s best mate, as the team behind funnel-web venom drug that could save heart attack and stroke victims prepares for clinical trials after 10 years
Healthy Harold and his Year 8 mate Jake share their top tips for settling those fears when you move or make a fresh start in secondary school
Parents battling social media harm is like the Rebellion fighting the Death Star as Mark Knight channels Darth Vader’s much-needed voice of authority in tribute to the actor who voiced him
PM Anthony Albanese has announced his government will work with states and territories on a ‘national approach’ to impose a unified social media age limit to better protect Australian children
Australia could be on the brink of revolutionising brain cancer treatment as Victorian researchers hope to transform patient outcomes with a startling discovery that enables the body to melt tumours from the inside
We all have to learn how to navigate feelings and choices in difficult conversations, so Healthy Harold, Life Ed and R U OK? have created a new interactive video journey to make it easier
The biggest ever push for introducing recycled drinking water to millions of Australians is underway, after one major authority floated the new approach in its future water management proposal
Okay, so it’s not immortality, but why an important organ in the human immune system stops working properly as we age has baffled scientists for decades – until this revolutionary discovery
Plastic seems to be everywhere – and it’s even in our bodies! Scientists have now revealed the five main chemicals used in plastic are bad for human health at every stage of development
A new survey shows just how many hours a day even young kids waste on TikTok, but combined with X and other social media the serious risk of harm has health experts calling for urgent change