A review of the platforms of the major parties found there are no serious family policies being offered by any major party – Labor, Coalition or Greens. Instead, policies are focused on having both parents in paid work and facilitating that by providing more institutional childcare. Even changes to the Liberals’ paid parental-leave program are designed for parents returning to paid work after…

The public image that Labor desperately wanted to create about the unknown Anthony Albanese has been exposed in the first couple of weeks of the election campaign as a flimsy cardboard cutout of the real person. Labor tried to portray Albanese as someone with strong economic credentials, someone who had been an economic adviser in the respected Hawke government, who had tough jobs…

Dr Jekyll meets Count Dracula in Morbius, a comic-book thriller about a tragic anti-hero whose desire to save others – and himself – leads to horrific consequences. Dr Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is a brilliant scientist with a rare blood disorder requiring daily transfusions. Desperate to cure his disease and save himself and other sufferers, he turns to increasingly “unorthodox” and experimental treatments.…