The United Nations officially declared July15 as World Youth Skills Day in 2014, celebrating the need to help young people thrive in their future career pathways.

Soil holds the key to life, starting at the very beginning of the food chain. Its nutrients, moisture and stability grow the produce we eat and feeds the stock we rely so heavily on for food and fibre.

A Bill introduced to Australian Parliament banning the display of the Islamic State flag could cause confusion and put an unfair target on the backs of Muslims.

The world has reached a major milestone as the population tally ticks past eight billion in the lead-up to World Population Day – Tuesday 11 July.

Chocolate’s humble beginnings as a simple cocoa and milk-based sweet treat have come a long way. Today, varieties of caramel, white, dark, even ruby, line our supermarket shelves.

A leading Charles Sturt University social work academic says elites and institutions have allowed poverty and the plight of poor people to persist.

A Charles Sturt University accounting academic says that with the End of the Financial Year (EOFY), business and individual taxpayers are keen to know what affects them, what measures are good, and what are not so good.

Animals provide a wealth of benefits to their human counterparts, from simply bringing a smile to their face, through to guiding the sight-impaired through daily life.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) does not discriminate. It can develop in anyone, at any stage of their life - be it a firefighter attending a fatal blaze, a soldier returning from deployment in a far-away war zone, or a woman's traumatic birth.