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When does tracking become stalking? Tell your kids. There’s one key warning sign

For better or worse, young people live in a world of surveillance. The best we can do as parents is to make sure they know how to identify shifts in...

16.05.2025 4

WA Today

Julia Baird

When does tracking become stalking? Tell your kids. There’s one key warning sign

For better or worse, young people live in a world of surveillance. The best we can do as parents is to make sure they know how to identify shifts in...

16.05.2025 6

The Sydney Morning Herald

Julia Baird

When does tracking become stalking? Tell your kids. There’s one key warning sign

For better or worse, young people live in a world of surveillance. The best we can do as parents is to make sure they know how to identify shifts in...

16.05.2025 5

The Age

Julia Baird

When does tracking become stalking? Tell your kids. There’s one key warning sign

For better or worse, young people live in a world of surveillance. The best we can do as parents is to make sure they know how to identify shifts in...

16.05.2025 3

Brisbane Times

Julia Baird

Politics is still a man’s world. Let’s reimagine the law of this jungle

The absence of women in key political debates has led many of us to turn down the sound and disengage. The natural world may offer a template for...

02.05.2025 6

WA Today

Julia Baird

Politics is still a man’s world. Let’s reimagine the law of this jungle

The absence of women in key political debates has led many of us to turn down the sound and disengage. The natural world may offer a template for...

02.05.2025 6

The Sydney Morning Herald

Julia Baird

Politics is still a man’s world. Let’s reimagine the law of this jungle

The absence of women in key political debates has led many of us to turn down the sound and disengage. The natural world may offer a template for...

02.05.2025 10

The Age

Julia Baird

Politics is still a man’s world. Let’s reimagine the law of this jungle

The absence of women in key political debates has led many of us to turn down the sound and disengage. The natural world may offer a template for...

02.05.2025 9

Brisbane Times

Julia Baird

Our love of the ocean runs deep, but yet, we’re in troubled waters

Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.

18.04.2025 10

WA Today

Julia Baird

Our love of the ocean runs deep, but yet, we’re in troubled waters

Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.

18.04.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Julia Baird

Our love of the ocean runs deep, but yet, we’re in troubled waters

Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.

18.04.2025 10

The Age

Julia Baird

Our love of the ocean runs deep, but yet, we’re in troubled waters

Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.

18.04.2025 8

Brisbane Times

Julia Baird

I’ve been nicely severed. It’s my dystopian escape that beats Ted Lasso

Severance has become Apple’s most-watched series. It taps the anxiety of the modern working person.

21.03.2025 20

WA Today

Julia Baird

I’ve been nicely severed. It’s my dystopian escape that beats Ted Lasso

Severance has become Apple’s most-watched series. It taps the anxiety of the modern working person.

21.03.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Julia Baird

I’ve been nicely severed. It’s my dystopian escape that beats Ted Lasso

Severance has become Apple’s most-watched series. It taps the anxiety of the modern working person.

21.03.2025 10

The Age

Julia Baird

I’ve been nicely severed. It’s my dystopian escape that beats Ted Lasso

Severance has become Apple’s most-watched series. It taps the anxiety of the modern working person.

21.03.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Julia Baird

Elon Musk is wrong. To spurn empathy is to spur evil

Elon Musk claims empathy is a weakness of Western civilisation. Perhaps he fears a more hopeful view of human nature.

07.03.2025 3

WA Today

Julia Baird

Elon Musk is wrong. To spurn empathy is to spur evil

Elon Musk claims empathy is a weakness of Western civilisation. Perhaps he fears a more hopeful view of human nature.

07.03.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Julia Baird

Elon Musk is wrong. To spurn empathy is to spur evil

Elon Musk claims empathy is a weakness of Western civilisation. Perhaps he fears a more hopeful view of human nature.

07.03.2025 10

The Age

Julia Baird

Elon Musk is wrong. To spurn empathy is to spur evil

Elon Musk claims empathy is a weakness of Western civilisation. Perhaps he fears a more hopeful view of human nature.

07.03.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Julia Baird

This most despised author’s task may soon vanish. I won’t miss it

Book blurbs have been around for centuries and have long been panned for hyperbole. Happily, at least one major publisher has decided enough’s enough.

21.02.2025 8

WA Today

Julia Baird

This most despised author’s task may soon vanish. I won’t miss it

Book blurbs have been around for centuries and have long been panned for hyperbole. Happily, at least one major publisher has decided enough’s enough.

21.02.2025 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Julia Baird

This most despised author’s task may soon vanish. I won’t miss it

Book blurbs have been around for centuries and have long been panned for hyperbole. Happily, at least one major publisher has decided enough’s enough.

21.02.2025 8

The Age

Julia Baird

This most despised author’s task may soon vanish. I won’t miss it

Book blurbs have been around for centuries and have long been panned for hyperbole. Happily, at least one major publisher has decided enough’s enough.

21.02.2025 6

Brisbane Times

Julia Baird

Trump’s the great attention thief. It’s time to focus, people

Don’t let the re-elected US president hijack your senses, you’ll miss the real story.

07.02.2025 10

WA Today

Julia Baird

Trump’s the great attention thief. It’s time to focus, people

Don’t let the re-elected US president hijack your senses, you’ll miss the real story.

07.02.2025 6

The Sydney Morning Herald

Julia Baird

Trump’s the great attention thief. It’s time to focus, people

Don’t let the re-elected US president hijack your senses, you’ll miss the real story.

07.02.2025 10

The Age

Julia Baird

Trump’s the great attention thief. It’s time to focus, people

Don’t let the re-elected US president hijack your senses, you’ll miss the real story.

07.02.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Julia Baird

A brave bishop stumped Trump. You could call it a Bible bashing

Donald Trump has presented himself as a Christian champion, but a Washington cleric just reminded him what Christianity is actually about.

24.01.2025 5

WA Today

Julia Baird

A brave bishop stumped Trump. You could call it a Bible bashing

Donald Trump has presented himself as a Christian champion, but a Washington cleric just reminded him what Christianity is actually about.

24.01.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Julia Baird

A brave bishop stumped Trump. You could call it a Bible bashing

Donald Trump has presented himself as a Christian champion, but a Washington cleric just reminded him what Christianity is actually about.

24.01.2025 20

The Age

Julia Baird

A brave bishop stumped Trump. You could call it a Bible bashing

Donald Trump has presented himself as a Christian champion, but a Washington cleric just reminded him what Christianity is actually about.

24.01.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Julia Baird

The objects of 2024 and the people they made – or brought down

Look, we’ve heard a lot about persons of the year, a category that is surely subjective and has long skewed to the powerful. But I’d like to...

27.12.2024 4

WA Today

Julia Baird

The objects of 2024 and the people they made – or brought down

Look, we’ve heard a lot about persons of the year, a category that is surely subjective and has long skewed to the powerful. But I’d like to...

27.12.2024 4

The Age

Julia Baird

The objects of 2024 and the people they made – or brought down

Look, we’ve heard a lot about persons of the year, a category that is surely subjective and has long skewed to the powerful. But I’d like to...

27.12.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Julia Baird

The objects of 2024 and the people they made – or brought down

Look, we’ve heard a lot about persons of the year, a category that is surely subjective and has long skewed to the powerful. But I’d like to...

27.12.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Julia Baird

What if there was a way to measure someone’s contempt? Now there is

“We have a new viral, toxic, almost lethal issue that almost no one has named,” says American leader Tim Shriver. “We have a cultural addiction to...

13.12.2024 9

WA Today

Julia Baird

What if there was a way to measure someone’s contempt? Now there is

“We have a new viral, toxic, almost lethal issue that almost no one has named,” says American leader Tim Shriver. “We have a cultural addiction to...

13.12.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Julia Baird

What if there was a way to measure someone’s contempt? Now there is

“We have a new viral, toxic, almost lethal issue that almost no one has named,” says American leader Tim Shriver. “We have a cultural addiction to...

13.12.2024 4

The Age

Julia Baird

What if there was a way to measure someone’s contempt? Now there is

“We have a new viral, toxic, almost lethal issue that almost no one has named,” says American leader Tim Shriver. “We have a cultural addiction to...

13.12.2024 6

Brisbane Times

Julia Baird

Were the Menendez brothers monsters or monstered? Young boys need the answer

Oh, to have been present during the jury deliberations at the first trial of the Menendez brothers in California in 1994. Erik and Lyle Menendez –...

18.10.2024 3

WA Today

Julia Baird

Were the Menendez brothers monsters or monstered? Young boys need the answer

Oh, to have been present during the jury deliberations at the first trial of the Menendez brothers in California in 1994. Erik and Lyle Menendez –...

18.10.2024 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Julia Baird

Were the Menendez brothers monsters or monstered? Young boys need the answer

Oh, to have been present during the jury deliberations at the first trial of the Menendez brothers in California in 1994. Erik and Lyle Menendez –...

18.10.2024 9

The Age

Julia Baird

Were the Menendez brothers monsters or monstered? Young boys need the answer

Oh, to have been present during the jury deliberations at the first trial of the Menendez brothers in California in 1994. Erik and Lyle Menendez –...

18.10.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Julia Baird

Why Demi Moore’s body-horror movie is so compelling, despite the truth it’s missing

The best line in the new movie The Substance, a gory, gaudy, body-horror feminist cautionary tale, is a question asked by the main character,...

04.10.2024 3

WA Today

Julia Baird

Why Demi Moore’s body-horror movie is so compelling, despite the truth it’s missing

The best line in the new movie The Substance, a gory, gaudy, body-horror feminist cautionary tale, is a question asked by the main character,...

04.10.2024 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Julia Baird

Why Demi Moore’s body-horror movie is so compelling, despite the truth it’s missing

The best line in the new movie The Substance, a gory, gaudy, body-horror feminist cautionary tale, is a question asked by the main character,...

04.10.2024 5

The Age

Julia Baird

Why Demi Moore’s body-horror movie is so compelling, despite the truth it’s missing

The best line in the new movie The Substance, a gory, gaudy, body-horror feminist cautionary tale, is a question asked by the main character,...

04.10.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Julia Baird

Gisèle’s 80 rapists were monstrous, but not monsters. They were ordinary men

Gisèle Pelicot was pale when she walked out of the courtroom where her husband had confessed to repeatedly raping her, drugging her, and allowing...

20.09.2024 3

WA Today

Julia Baird

Gisèle’s 80 rapists were monstrous, but not monsters. They were ordinary men

Gisèle Pelicot was pale when she walked out of the courtroom where her husband had confessed to repeatedly raping her, drugging her, and allowing...

20.09.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Julia Baird