Society & Culture

PM's Spelling Bee: How to help yourself by helping your child. A new Monash University study shows that spelling activities like crosswords may help more than socialising in avoiding dementia. Picture: iStock

Support loved ones with dementia

This Dementia Action Week (15-21 Sept), we’re looking at ways to support our older loved ones living with the condition as well as what can be done to avoid it – but what exactly is dementia?

First Nations News

Authors Tyran Uddin (left) and Kayden Wellington with their book. Picture: Tom McGann

Aussie teens to published authors

These two high school students turned a school project into a published book, thanks to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Find out how they did it and what the future now holds

PICTURESHistory

The NSW Police are celebrating 200 years of the Mounted Police. These are supplied historical photos to mark the occasion. Pictured is 1930 - ANZAC Day March, Sydney

Australian mounted police turn 200

From catching colonial criminals to defusing modern protests, the nation’s pioneering horse-mounted police have galloped through history to the present day to celebrate a very special milestone

Mark Knight cartoon
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Pies fans board party bus to finals

Collingwood’s victory over Adelaide had cartoonist Mark Knight imagining the wild celebrations on the supporters’ long journey home as last week’s upset keeps Magpie fans’ finals hopes alive

Portraits of the late Blessed Carlo Acutis, an adolescent who spends his life spreading his faith online and earns the moniker ''God's Influencer,'' and the late Italian Pier Giorgio Frassati, a mountaineering enthusiast known for his social and spiritual commitment who dies in 1925, are displayed on the Saint Peter's Basilica during a Jubilee audience at the Saint Peter's Square in The Vatican on September 6, 2025. Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati are raised to sainthood by Pope Leo XIV in a solemn ceremony in St Peter's Square at the Vatican on September 7, 2025. (Photo by Massimo Valicchia/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Gen Alpha gets its first teen saint

Teenager Carlos Acutis has become the first ever millennial saint following his canonisation at St Peter’s Square by Pope Leo XIV. Find out how the self-taught coder received the holy honour

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - APRIL 09: Josh Giddey #3 of the Chicago Bulls looks to pass the ball against Andrew Wiggins #22 and Bam Adebayo #13 of the Miami Heat during the second quarter at the United Center on April 09, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)

Melb NBA star’s slam-dunk bucks

First drafted to the NBA as a teenager, Australian basketball talent Josh Giddey has landed an eye-watering new deal with the Chicago Bulls after a long wait – guess how much it’s worth?

EXCLUSIVESpelling Bee

PM’s Spelling Bee national finalists

The third and final round of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee starts Wednesday, after state and territory finals decided this year’s national finalists. FULL LIST OF NATIONAL FINALISTS

POLLScience and Technology

Portrait of serious teenage girl ling on bed and using smartphone. technology, internet, communication and people concept. Photo of pensive Caucasian Teenage Girl Sending Text Message Whilst Lying In Bed during the day

‘Monumental’ step to protect kids

Australia’s incoming social media age limit will help keep the nation’s kids from serious harms and other countries should do the same, say leading global child safety experts. Do you agree?

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Jennifer Hunt, 15, and her golden retriever Bella before they both embark on a record-breaking flight around Australia from Darwin, Friday, September 9, 2025. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Teen pilot and puppy take off

While most 15-year-olds are in school, Australia’s youngest female pilot and her puppy are set to make history attempting to become the youngest team to fly around our country’s vast coastline

VIDEOAsk Healthy Harold

KIDS NEWS 2025: Healthy Harold and his friends Sophia and Hakim want to share a story about why RU OK? Day can be any ordinary day. Picture: Life Ed/supplied

Make every day an RU OK? Day

Life happens every day and it’s always full of ups and down for everybody, so this RU OK? Day, Healthy Harold and friends share why checking in any old day can make all the difference

THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB (L to R) SHAY RUDOLPH as STACEY MCGILL and MOMONA TAMADA as CLAUDIA KISHI in episode 207 of THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB Cr. KAILEY SCHWERMAN/NETFLIX © 2021

Meet Gen Alpha money-makers

Gen Alpha is the new breed of Australian entrepreneur, already nipping at the heels of Gen Z and Millennials – so how are kids and teens smashing the avocado crowd and making real money?

Mark Knight cartoon on Dan Andrews in China

Citizen Dan in curious company

Former Vic Premier Daniel Andrews’ surprise appearance with Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin inspired Mark Knight to resurrect his ‘Dictator Dan’ caricature in Communist crowd

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Molly PIcklum montage pic for online The Daily Telegraph

From grommet to WSL greatness

Australia’s newly-crowned surfing world champion Molly Picklum has revealed how she got away with skipping the school bus to squeeze in more surfing while growing up on The Central Coast

Two people, modern Japanese couple having homemade sushi together for lunch in dining room at home. Woman is dipping sushi in soy sauce. Picture: iStock

Sushi soy sauce bottles banned

South Australia has become the first Australian state to ban those pesky, polluting little fish-shaped soy sauce containers, but will the rest of the country follow? Find out which other two states might

VIDEOFirst Nations News

KIDS NEWS 2025: Indigenous Literacy Fund (ILF) celebrates Indigenous Literacy Day on Wednesday 3 September. Students from Katherine High School in the Northern Territory have written a bilingual book with Gregg Dreise called Grinch det K’Taun Krok! (Grinch the K-Town Croc!), published by the ILF. Picture: ILF/supplied

ILD: Celebrating strength in stories

Young Indigenous authors have travelled from their remote community to Sydney Opera House this Indigenous Literacy Day, to share their unique bilingual tale about a quacking crocodile

VIDEOSpelling Bee

KIDS NEWS 2025: PM's Spelling Bee - stars of the School Round. NSW is in good hands for next week's State and Territory Finals after North Rocks Primary School's Sherry Y achieved overall top ranking in the ORANGE level of the national School Round with her score of 30/30 in just 0:51.466. Picture: supplied

PM Spelling Bee’s shining stars

The 2025 PM’s Spelling Bee saw a record-breaking 82,712 student registrations – now 4600 of the best head to state and territory finals. See the top school round results in our national honour roll

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A man snatched Kamil Majchrzak’s hat from an eager young fan at the US Open. Image: Eurosport

Hats off to Majchrzak’s hero act

Polish tennis player Kamil Majchrzak used “the power of the internet” to right a wrong after a young fan was left heartbroken by a grown man’s selfish snatch. Find out how he saved the day

Mark Knight cartoon on the long tentacles of Iranian terrorism

Slippery tentacles of terror snipped

Australia’s security agency ASIO prefers operating under the radar but this week’s big reveal that Iran’s reach extends to our shores put Mark Knight in mind of one many-tentacled creature

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged. Swift posted five photos to her Instagram for the announcement, with the caption saying:

Tay Tay confirms start of new ‘era’

The hit singer and star footballer’s announcement on social media broke the internet on Wednesday – can you guess just how many fans around the world liked their happy news within an hour?

How gross is your water bottle?

Many schools are already plastic free and reusable drink bottles are much better for the planet, but health experts say there’s a nasty surprise inside if we don’t keep our cool keepers clean