Michael Koziol is a journalist with Fairfax Media.
Saturday marks 12 years since the Howard government amended the Marriage Act to exclude same-sex couples. Gay marriage wasn't even really on the radar here, but the big concern was that people who got hitched overseas would seek to have that recognised back in Australia.
Australia should shut down all major youth detention centres and move young offenders into community-based programs, a leading US expert has recommended.
The Turnbull government's royal commission into juvenile detention will go beyond Darwin's disgraced Don Dale detention centre but will focus solely on the Northern Territory, Attorney-General George Brandis has revealed.
People born overseas who speak a language other than English at home are far less likely to use mental health services, new data reveals.
Australian universities are failing to adequately look after the mental health of their students and should invest in a national research centre on the subject, according to a new report.
Gastro has once again struck an unsuspecting load of cruise ship passengers. So how do you avoid the bug when you're trapped on a stricken ship?
When Australian surfers Dean Lucas and Adam Coleman ventured into the Mexican state of Sinaloa, they must have known they were entering one of the world's most dangerous territories.
Sydney University student politics is famed for both churning out some of the country's highest profile politicians and public figures - Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey and Michael Kirby among them - but also for its unruliness.
Every cooked breakfast is doing you damage. But so are a whole stack of other things.
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