With 73 per cent of Australian households owning a pet, the humble dinner bowl has become another place where owners are applying the same health-conscious thinking they use when choosing food for themselves.

Forget the shopping centre scrum. Some of Australia’s best Christmas shopping can be found outdoors, where you can browse local stalls, eat something delicious and soak up the festive atmosphere while turning the journey into part of the holiday.

Sarah Beardmore, co-founder of Dorsal Summer is coming, the beaches are calling, and Aussies are about to head into the water with a serious information gap staring them down. According to Sarah Beardmore, co-founder of Dorsal, Australia's largest shark sighting platform, a string of serious shark sightings has slipped through the cracks of official shark monitoring programs in recent weeks: sightings that happened outside the hours, or outside the states where those program

For anyone who has ever spent an evening swiping through dating profiles only to wonder why finding someone you actually like feels like applying for a job, a Sydney mum has come up with another option: put the phone down.

Forget everything you think you know about making the perfect cup of tea. We sat down with Will Dixon, Tea Buyer at Yorkshire Tea, to settle the debate once and for all, from the great milk-first-or-last row to why your kettle habits might be killing your brew. Q: What's the single most common mistake you see Australians making with their tea? A: Either rushing the process and not giving the tea long enough to brew, or using low-quality tea," says Will. "If you don't start th