All articles published by The Daily Perspective from 28 February to 29 March 2026.
New research reveals that despite being publicly funded, Australian schools impose mounting costs that push families into debt. For the most vulnerable, the real cost of education is unaffordable.
Grace Okonkwo 
A 27-year-old man is in serious but stable condition after police shot him outside a shopping complex in Logan when he allegedly approached officers with a knife.
Rachel Thornbury At GDC 2026, 52% of game developers say AI is harming the industry, up from 30% last year. The real story isn't the technology—it's the loss of faith in an industry that's already laid off 28% of its workforce.
Jake Nguyen New government data shows 43% of low-income renters experiencing rental stress, with 254,571 households waiting for social housing. The policy response isn't working.
Jake Nguyen 
More than 20 firefighters responded to a fire at an ice cream shop in Williamstown on Friday afternoon. All eight people in the shop were evacuated safely.
Victoria Crawford 
The Sydney Kings smashed the Adelaide 36ers 112-68 in the NBL Championship Series opener—the largest margin in grand final history—with Kendric Davis outshining MVP Bryce Cotton in a statement performance.
Jimmy O'Brien 
Reddit is weighing biometric verification tools like Face ID to combat bots, but faces backlash from users who fear the privacy trade-off.
Andrew Marsh 
New planning research reveals Brisbane is abandoning its sprawling suburban pattern in favour of self-contained density hubs clustered around shopping centres and transport nodes.
Mitchell Tan 
Mojang has officially announced Minecraft Dungeons II, a sequel to its popular dungeon-crawling spinoff, set to launch in autumn 2026 across multiple platforms.
Priya Narayanan 
When Amy Hipwell suffered pregnancy losses and postnatal anxiety, no doctor asked about her mental state. New data shows she was far from alone.
Meg Hadley Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s came into effect in December, but schools and teachers are struggling to manage its real-world impact on student wellbeing and classroom dynamics.
Grace Okonkwo 
A 75-year-old woman has shared her harrowing account of having her baby forcibly taken at Crown Street Women's Hospital in 1971. Her story illuminates the systematic practices that separated up to 250,000 mothers from their children.
Sophia Vargas 
Pocketpair's publishing head claims the studio has no desire to build a media empire, yet the developer has announced farming sims, dating games, and trading card games within months of launch.
Jake Nguyen 
Rising property prices and higher interest rates have locked many Australians out of homeownership. But new investment methods from share-based trusts to fractional property platforms are opening alternative doors.
Sarah Cheng 
A $102 million windfall meant to transform wildlife rescue has left Australia's largest wildlife charity fractured, with thousands of volunteers walking away.
Meg Hadley 
Deltarune Chapter 5 development is transitioning from creation to refinement, with the development team largely completing their work and professional testers now set to begin formal quality assurance in April.
Priya Narayanan 
A lawsuit between Halide camera app co-founders reveals Apple was close to acquiring the company to boost iPhone 18 Pro capabilities. The deal collapsed in September 2025, then one founder joined Apple anyway.
Darren Ong 
Rangers at Melbourne's Darebin Parklands have raised alarm after discovering that boxes installed for sugar gliders and microbats were dismantled twice in December, suggesting a potential poaching operation targeting protected native species.
Aisha Khoury 
An investigation into freebirth outcomes in Victoria has uncovered a catastrophic toll: multiple preventable deaths and injuries among babies and mothers who chose to give birth without trained medical support.
Oliver Pemberton 
Weight loss compliments may seem harmless, but mental health professionals warn they can trigger eating disorders, reinforce harmful beauty standards, and miss what really matters about our friends.
Aisha Khoury 
Minecraft's next major update, Chaos Cubed, introduces shape-shifting sulfur cubes and hazardous new cave systems. The update arrives later this year, following Tiny Takeover on March 24.
Sophia Vargas 
Minecraft World will become the first major theme park dedicated to the best-selling video game. Opening in 2027 at Chessington World of Adventures near London, it represents a significant bet on gaming IP in the physical world.
Jake Nguyen A 25-year-old saving for a home in Sydney faces seven-and-a-half years of financial discipline just to gather a 20 per cent deposit, while wage growth lags far behind surging property prices.
Andrew Marsh 
Games like Baldur's Gate 3 let you build anyone; The Witcher 3 makes you play Geralt. Neither approach is objectively better, but the debate reveals what players really want from RPGs.
Jake Nguyen 
OpenAI plans to expand from 4,500 to 8,000 employees by end of 2026, a sign of how fiercely the race for dominance in artificial intelligence is escalating.
Sophia Vargas 
Pearl Abyss released Crimson Desert without Intel Arc support, even after Intel offered years of engineering assistance and hardware resources.
Tom Whitfield 
Nintendo is planning a European version of the Switch 2 with a removable battery to comply with EU regulations requiring easy battery replacement by February 2027.
Sophia Vargas 
Resident Evil 1.5 was cancelled 70% complete, but Capcom's developers kept promoting it for months. After decades of rumour, fans finally obtained the lost prototype and made it playable.
Sophia Vargas 
Before Resident Evil 4 became one of gaming's greatest achievements, Capcom scrapped four radically different versions. Each failure taught crucial lessons.
Sophia Vargas 
Two audacious attempts to bring Resident Evil to Nintendo platforms fell victim to technical limits and creative gatekeeping, their near-complete builds resurfacing decades later.
Sophia Vargas