Is your Gen Z teen who’s about to graduate high school obsessed with gadgets, apps and machines? Then a career in tech might be right up their alley.  And nope, they don’t need a degree in computer science to get their foot in the door to a tech career.  Here are 5 tech jobs your […]

The artist’s rendition of the Sun Cable solar farm in the Northern Territory is nothing short of monumental. Black solar panels stretch as far as the eye can see, except for the slivers of bright red earth that characterise the Powell Creek Station, about 750kms south of Darwin. If the ambitious megaproject goes ahead, it […]

Picture this: it’s Saturday afternoon, and you’re sitting opposite your Hinge date sipping an oat milk flat white at one of Melb’s hottest cafes. It’s going well. The convo is fire and the spark is there. Time to cut to the chase – or as director of relationship science at Hinge Logan Ury refers to […]

Grabbing hold of Gen Z can be as hard as catching a bouncy ball in a squash court – one moment they’re here, the next they’re over there, and just when you manage to get your hands on them for a second they slip right through and are off somewhere else. The upshot is that the […]

Did you know that 90% of a child’s brain development occurs in the first five years of their life? And that those formative years are critical for emotional, intellectual and creative development that sets a child up for life? When you put it that way, that makes early-childhood education one of the most important careers […]

Be a lady, they said. If anyone wants to fast-track their understanding of the impossible demands that women face, let none other than Cynthia Nixon express those five words for you in this viral two-and-half-minute video. Go on, we’ll be right here. Ok, you’re back! Now if you’ve felt that kind of pressure all your life, […]

When the best and brightest finish school, where do they have their sights on working today? Breakthrough tech success stories like Canva and Atlassian would be high on the list, along with all those well-established top-tier finance, law and media brands graduates have always had their hearts set on. But what about a mine somewhere […]

Influencers get a bad rap. “Get a real job!” they say. Ok, some “influencers” are questionable. Influencer fraud happens, and it costs companies millions of dollars. But the truth is influencers are actually more influential than traditional celebrities with Gen Zs. Research in our What Gen Z Actually Do Online report found that 32% of Gen Zs have bought something because of […]

MMA madness has Gen Z aaaaaaall fired up. Yep, thanks to the incredible popularity of UFC, Mixed Martial Arts has become the fastest-growing sport in the world and the most popular combat sport in Australia. But should MMA – a combination of the world’s fighting styles like Brazilian jiu-jitsu, taekwondo, karate and kick-boxing – be […]

Cranes summon giant towers from the CBD floor. New light rails and motorways snake from the inner city to the burbs. From north to south and east to west tunnel boring machines cut subterranean veins for metros to glide along. All the while homes, homes and more homes spring up anywhere there’s a spare inch […]

Gen Zs have had it rough the past few years.  They were the first generation in a century to be forced to complete their high school education from home, endured harsh lockdowns during critical formative years and missed important milestones they’d been looking forward to their entire lives: 18th birthdays, formals, graduations, schoolies. And when […]

Let’s be honest. Sport participation and adolescence isn’t the most iconic of duos. We’re all familiar with the stereotypes of teenagers moaning about going to gym class, drawing the sick card on sports carnivals, or even straight-up wagging when any kind of physical activity is even anticipated. But the results of our latest youth sport […]

Understanding how someone can get rich off YouTube can seem like a total mystery.  I mean, we know it has something to do with views, right?  With YouTube being Gen Z’s second most used social network, used by 76% of them regularly according to the findings in our What Gen Z Actually Do Online report, […]

There’s so much for high schoolers to consider. To learn a trade or a profession? Is a structured program or the flexibility of working at your own pace more attractive? How much of a factor is tuition cost, or is earning while you train more attractive given the economic impact of the pandemic? Needless to say transitioning […]