Friendship

Headlines often highlight the divisions between older and younger Australians, but research suggests intergenerational friendships can help to reduce age-based discrimination in both directions, while offering other benefits.

Social media users are showing off their intergenerational work friendships, but experts say the benefits are substantial.

Each month, strangers and friends meet to share dishes from a chosen cookbook. But Cookbook Club Naarm is more than a foodie feast, it's a reminder of food's power to bring us together.

Veronica and Wendy made a pact as teenagers to move back to their hometown to retire together. More than 40 years later they have kept their promise. 

Despite our screens being filled with images of happy families celebrating Christmas, some feel the festive season is lonelier than ever.

Patrick, 15, does not use social media and hopes he never does. Nick, 15, had a flip phone for the first few years of high school. Here is why they support the social media ban.

The only flashy thing at this golf club in regional Victoria is the community spirit, but it is enough for them to thrive.

Sixty years ago in Canada, 12-year-old Diane Hatt went searching for a pen pal in Australia. She found one in South Australian Joy Doevendans and they've become best friends.

Data from the latest HILDA survey indicate socialising rates have dropped over the past two decades, and, more recently, have not returned to pre-COVID frequency.

Montearo Brown is a TV and film reviewer who blogs under the name Sprite Lee. He also happens to be a twin. So, what does he think of the movie Twinless?

Some Australians would rather stay home and talk to an AI bot than go out with friends, according to a YouGov survey.

Friends Gem and Renata have saved money buying a home together with their respective families in Wollongong, and say the pay-off goes much further.

Support service Kids Helpline has received more than 1,000 reports from young people of abusive and controlling behaviour from peers, including friends.

Noni Wilson, 89, is commended for putting up a fight when a stranger tried to steal a car she was sitting in outside Broken Hill Hospital. 

Author Jessica Seaborn was inspired to write about friendships after mulling over how difficult it is to make friends in adulthood. Her new novel Isn't It Nice We Both Hate the Same Things is a story about best friends, losing friends and making new friends — if only it was so easy to find them.

Wendy Pope and Esme Rash, both in their 90s, have remained firm friends for more than four decades.

Malcolm Harris had only just learnt CPR when he used it to save a man's life in the 1980s. Four decades later, during a routine trip to the car wash, the 82-year-old retiree was the one who needed saving. 

When masters student Kinneret Pezarkar moved to Canberra from Mumbai, she found making friends a challenge despite being surrounded by other students who had left their support networks behind.

In South Australia's regions where sport often reigns supreme, board-gaming circles are growing.

For about 30 years, the owner of a remote station in New South Wales has opened her gates to welcome potters from near and far.