Paper Name Banner

Kids can learn how to make this colourful name banner to hang on their bedroom door. ...

16 April, 2024

5 tips for getting off gas at home

Trivess Moore,  Alan Pears  and  Nicola Willand look at alternatives for a cleaner, cheaper, healthier all-electric future Burning gas in our homes to cook food or heat air and water has become a contentious issue. Gas is an expensive, polluting fossil fuel, and there’s mounting evidence to...

08 September, 2023

Real Life v Real Estate

Tiggy Johnson finds that selling your house can be hard when your kids live in it I don’t recommend that you sell a house that small children live in. This is the kind of advice that I wish I’d been given before I had small children....

25 May, 2023

Wanted: family-friendly apartments

But what do families want from apartments? ask Nicole Cook, Shanaka Herath and Sophie-May Kerr The family-friendly apartment is an idea whose time has come. In the Liverpool CBD in Sydney, for example, half the apartments are occupied by families with children, our newly published study...

11 May, 2023

26 Laundry hacks to make your life less of a hassle!

These solutions are for common laundry problems, writes Win Koda and will make laundry less of a hassle! Wash everything in cold water except towels and whites to avoid setting stains and save on energy costs. Freshen up wrinkled clothes by throwing them into the...

27 April, 2023

5 realistic tips to ease the pressure on family meals

Researchers Georgia Middleton,  Eloise Litterbach, Fairley Le Moal and Susannah Ayre ask is eating together regularly as a family really a simple solution for improving health and wellbeing? We have been told that to achieve these proposed benefits we must follow an idealistic, age-old formula: all...

06 April, 2023

What you can do as gas is exposed as a toxic health hazard in our homes 

The Climate Council, in partnership with Sarah Wilson, founder of the I Quit Sugar movement, has launched a new campaign to raise awareness about the health risks associated with gas in our homes. According to Ms Wilson, toxic gases such as nitrogen dioxide, which are leaked...

06 April, 2023

What flood survivors actually need after disaster strikes

‘Would you like lunch? Can I clean out the chook house?’  Mel Taylor and Barbara Ryan look at what people need after disaster strikes. The floods ravaging Victoria have destroyed hundreds of homes and left at least one person dead. Some rivers are not expected to...

27 October, 2022

How safe is my place?

 Find out with the new Security App! RACV and Neighbourhood Watch have taken some guesswork out of home security by developing the How Safe is My Place augmented reality app. By asking a series of questions, just like in the game of ‘I-Spy’, the new app will...

12 May, 2022

6 Ways to Protect Your Privacy Online

If you prefer that companies not know absolutely everything about you, here are some ways you can protect your information and limit the amount of tracking by advertisers. ...

07 April, 2022