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Explore how Australians feel about their relationships, work life and financial skills

HILDA 2026

Map of the Month

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The things we’re missing about snake season in Melbourne

Urban sprawl and climate change mean ‘snake season’ isn't as simple as a date on the calendar. Our new Map of the Month tells you what you need to know to shed your snake bias

A modern map of Melbourne overlaid with tree surveys from 1830 - 1850.

We’ve reconstructed Melbourne’s 200-year-old forests

Before it was streets and suburbs, Melbourne was a rich landscape of forests, swamps and grasslands. Our new Map of the Month is rebuilding it for the first time – tree by tree

A rakali swimming in the water with its ears poking up

Australia's elusive rakali is hiding and thriving in Melbourne's waterways

The rakali is an Australian marvel of urban adaptation. Our new Map of the Month shows where to find them around Melbourne and where they’re mysteriously missing

Sciences & Technology

Nature-strip gardens are a paradise for pollinators in your street

Our research transformed road verges in Melbourne from mown grass into native habitat and seven times more insect pollinators came to visit. It’s time to put the nature back into nature strips.

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Melbourne Assembly brings together big ideas about what it means to be a 21st-century city

Melbourne Assembly

#ICYMI - In Case You Missed It

An intense summer weather system passes through Melbourne. Half the sky is blue and the other is grey clouds.

Don’t be fooled by Melbourne’s Fool’s Spring

From the ‘Spring of Deception’ to ‘The Swooping’, understanding the cycles of Australian weather can help us all love Melbourne’s eclectic seasons

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Why Melbourne makes you sneeze in spring

We've never known exactly which grass pollens trigger hay fever or thunderstorm asthma in Melbourne's spring. Now DNA is revealing which grasses are to blame

Lightning seen from Anzac Memorial Bridge on January 15, 2025 in Newcastle, Australia.

Extreme weather is Australia's new normal

Over the last few weeks, parts of Australia have been inundated by rain, scorched by heatwaves and slammed by storms. Is this our country's new normal?

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