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EPISODE · Mar 22, 2026 · 54 MIN

Making apartments more family-friendly and is 'leisure sickness' a real thing?

from Life Matters - Full program podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

As our cities grow, there's a push to build up, not out — including in our suburbs. For more families, that means home will be an apartment rather than a house. Kate Longley, who lives in an apartment with her two children, joins architect Natalia Krysiak to discuss how to make higher density living more family-friendly.University is a big leap for any young person. But for country students who have to move away to study, it comes with the added expense of relocating and living away from home. Wendy Mason from the Country Education Foundation says the rising cost of living is making it even harder. Author, columnist, and screenwriter Kathy Lette has written dozens of books — but she credits just one as the spark that set her on the path to becoming a writer."Leisure sickness" refers to the idea that people are more likely to get sick on the holidays than during the working week. There's little science to back it up, but there are some theories as to why it might happen — and what you can do about it.

As our cities grow, there's a push to build up, not out — including in our suburbs. For more families, that means home will be an apartment rather than a house. Kate Longley, who lives in an apartment with her two children, joins architect Natalia Krysiak to discuss how to make higher density living more family-friendly. University is a big leap for any young person. But for country students who have to move away to study, it comes with the added expense of relocating and living away from home. Wendy Mason from the Country Education Foundation says the rising cost of living is making it even harder.  Author, columnist, and screenwriter Kathy Lette has written dozens of books — but she credits just one as the spark that set her on the path to becoming a writer. "Leisure sickness" refers to the idea that people are more likely to get sick on the holidays than during the working week. There's little science to back it up, but there are some theories as to why it might happen — and what you can do about it.

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