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Helping you figure out all the big stuff in life: relationships, health, money, work and the world. Let's talk! With trusted experts and your stories, Life Matters is all about what matters to you.

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    • Society & Culture

Helping you figure out all the big stuff in life: relationships, health, money, work and the world. Let's talk! With trusted experts and your stories, Life Matters is all about what matters to you.

    Calls for increased childcare subsidies and libraries concerned about book bans

    Calls for increased childcare subsidies and libraries concerned about book bans

    Helping you figure out all the big stuff in life: relationships, health, money, work and the world.

    • 54 min
    How anticipating happiness leads to a joyful life & why luxury fragrance sales are booming in a cost-of-living crisis

    How anticipating happiness leads to a joyful life & why luxury fragrance sales are booming in a cost-of-living crisis

    Helping you figure out all the big stuff in life: relationships, health, money, work and the world.

    • 54 min
    Why we find it hard to ask for help, and splitting the bill with a fussy freeloader

    Why we find it hard to ask for help, and splitting the bill with a fussy freeloader

    Many of us struggle to ask for help when we need it, even when most people we love are willing to support us. So what holds us back, and how do you ask for the help you need without overstepping?

    Plus, Jenny Tian and Suren Jayemanne unpick an annoying lunch encounter for Ask Aunty.

    • 54 min
    How hummus led to a new life path and disappearing inside an investment firm

    How hummus led to a new life path and disappearing inside an investment firm

    Helping you figure out all the big stuff in life: relationships, health, money, work and the world.

    • 56 min
    How to raise respectful, non-violent men & being passionate about work

    How to raise respectful, non-violent men & being passionate about work

    As Australian society contemplates its ongoing problem with gendered violence, what are the best strategies for families, schools, and broader society to use when raising teenage boys?

    And finding a job or career that matches your values, and even your passions, is the dream for many, but how do you begin to figure out what that means in practice?

    • 54 min
    Making tertiary education more affordable and reflections on grief and love

    Making tertiary education more affordable and reflections on grief and love

    Are proposed changes to HECS-HELP and paid placements enough to stop the 'debt spiral' that some students are describing? And will they attract new students to degrees that have previously seemed unaffordable?

    And Nova Weetman shares her thoughts on how we grieve when life and personal responsibilities will not go away, but also reflecting the ups and downs that any relationship inevitably goes through.

    • 54 min

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