Was something great lost during the former Talking Heads frontman’s evolution from affected irony to chronic positivity?
The government’s deal with the Greens on environmental law reform is a political masterclass that leaves the Coalition ...
What might the second quantum revolution mean for science, technology and our understanding of reality itself?
A tribute to the late author and educator, whose clear-eyed advice and personal touch inspired generations of young writers ...
There were many things in the air that summer: relentless heat and lack of rain that was threatening to turn the grapes into ...
How should one respond to grief and loss? D.H. Lawrence, the Bible and a decade-old TV series all provide non-definitive ...
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley gets points for fronting up all over the place to pitch the new net-zero gone-but-not-really ...
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Ask any young person and they’ll tell you how much gambling happens in class and outside it, and how easy it is to set up an account using the details of a parent, an older sibling or a friend. It’s a ...
2025: Donald Trump’s presidency has given Australia the chance to recover its distinctive voice in world affairs We are experiencing another bout of panic about whether or not we are loved by America, ...
2025: Australia has the machinery of democracy, but does it have the spirit? The English-American author Os Guinness speaks of “civilisational moments”; the points every civilisation reaches where ...
In 2017, Finland began a bold experiment. Kela, the national social insurance agency, randomly selected 2000 unemployed people to receive a monthly €560 basic income for two years. The payments ...
Julia Roberts shines in Luca Guadagnino’s #MeToo film that tries too hard, while Rose Byrne and Jennifer Lawrence deliver in darkly comic films about young mothers “Not everything is supposed to make ...