Lin Evlin is a researcher and producer at Lateline, based in Sydney. Prior to joining the ABC, Lin practiced corporate and commercial law. Follow her on Twitter: @LinEvlin.
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| UpdatedChina's internet celebrities, known as Wang Hongs, are cashing in on their growing social media influence. Australian student Amy Lyons is one of them.
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, information-and-communication, australia, china, asia
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| UpdatedMen's jobs are easier to automate than women's jobs, a new analysis shows, and it's partly because women are more likely to work in occupations that need interpersonal, creative and decision-making skills.
Topics: robots-and-artificial-intelligence, work, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia should double its pace of artificial intelligence and robotics automation to reap a $2.2 trillion opportunity by 2030, while also urgently preparing to support more than 3 million workers whose jobs may be at risk, according to a new report.
Topics: science-and-technology, robots-and-artificial-intelligence, internet-technology, computers-and-technology, information-and-communication, australia
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| UpdatedAddicted to opioid painkillers for decades, Rustie Lassam would go from doctor to doctor to get her fix. This is her story.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, doctors-and-medical-professionals, australia
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| UpdatedAre you in your 30s and making a career change? If you are, you're not alone. Demographers say the increasing casualisation of the workforce has created a greater risk-taking culture among young professionals.
Topics: work, community-and-society, housing-industry, small-business, australia
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| UpdatedBy the time Heather Fotiades died, she was obese, barely able to move from the couch and in extreme pain. Once an "on-the-go" girl, her father said she just sat around doing nothing.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-use, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, pharmaceuticals, addictive, pain, australia
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| UpdatedAlmost 2,000 men detained by the Federal Government on Manus Island may receive compensation for mistreatment, in what legal experts say would be the largest human rights settlement in Australian legal history.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, laws, federal-government, australia, papua-new-guinea