A comprehensive new government report has found Australians are mostly getting healthier despite some worrying areas.

Life expectancies have declined for men and women in the last 12 months. The Australian Bureau of Statistics says this is because of excess deaths caused by COVID-19. Australia has the world's fourth ...

Australian life expectancy has gone backwards for the second year straight after a surge in COVID-19 deaths in 2022. An Australian girl born today is expected to live to 85.1 years, and a boy to 81.1 ...

Despite the decline, Australia remains among the top four longest-living developed countries, new Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows. At a state level those living in the ACT and Western ...

The 16-minute video by Dutch YouTube channel Hindsight, published on November 30, gives a rundown of the housing crisis that has pushed the Australian dream out of reach for a growing proportion of ...

While Australians still have the third-highest life expectancy in the world, behind only Monaco and Japan, the pandemic cut just over one month off the average lifespan during the 2020-22 period, ...