Some 42% of Australians experience a traumatic event before turning 18. Our study, released today, analysed data from 15,893 Australians aged 16-85. The findings reveal a confronting truth: two in five Australians - around 8.25 million people - experienced at least one traumatic event before the age of 18.

Australia has made major progress in curbing drink driving. Decades of random breath testing, enforcement and powerful social media campaigns have cut alcohol-related road deaths significantly. Yet new data show more fatal crashes now involve drugs than alcohol.

A fresh dispute has erupted between the Commonwealth and the states after it emerged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wrote to premiers and chief ministers in September urging them to curb public hospital spending if they want a new funding deal honoured. The request has sparked anger from state and territory health ministers.