With his strange machines and uncanny understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created an entirely new technique ...

The most striking observation in Dean Spears and Michael Geruso’s new book, After the Spike, is summed up by the cover illustration, which shows a world population rising rapidly to its current eight ...

Hal Wootten in his prime looked like Clark Kent, and he was indeed a kind of Superman, a “giant,” a “towering figure” to obituarists. An exceptionally long life was even more exceptionally packed with ...

Young voters are back! Or maybe they never left. Articles and talk programs pondering whether the youth vote “might decide the outcome this time” have been staple pre-election fillers for decades.

What strikes me most about the Aboriginal people I know is their generosity. Australian colonial history has given them endless reasons not to be generous, but still my Aboriginal friends and ...

Books & arts Not alone in the dark tunnel Tanya Dalziell 27 June 2025 Gail Jones’s latest novel echoes the preoccupations of much of her writing ...

National affairs Riding high Paul Rodan 4 June 2025 The final election count adds up to a remarkable win for Labor, but history offers warnings ...

John Edwards is a Non Resident Fellow of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and an Adjunct Professor with the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University. He is a former ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

These risks may explain the second big concern about housing affordability: the worry that “my child can’t afford to buy a house.” While buying a first home might seem “affordable” if we only look at ...

There’s no mystery about the strong sales of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu and its sequel for younger readers, Young Dark Emu: A Truer History. They have helped articulate a desire among non-Indigenous ...

Australia’s renewable energy revolution offers the biggest opportunity since the gold rushes and the wool and mining booms to revitalise regional Australia. Not that you’d know it from the claims made ...