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The ancient Romans venerated wine. It was accessible to the masses, a fundamental staple of mainstream life and an indispensable part of the Roman...
In The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, Antony Loewenstein details how Israel’s military-...
Note of warning: This article refers to deceased Aboriginal people, their words, names and images. Words attributed to them and images in the...
In 2008 Australia’s federal, state and territory governments set the goal of halving the employment gap between First Nations Australians and...
As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the...
After a marathon debate, the House of Representatives on Wednesday morning passed the bill for the referendum for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament...
Human reproduction is completely dependent on the healthy function of an underestimated but vital organ: the endometrium. This is the spongy tissue...
When Academy Awards boss Bill Kramer recently applauded comedian Chris Rock for speaking “his truth” about being slapped by Will Smith at the...
With the withdrawal of his principal challengers and the implicit endorsement from key factions within the Labor party, Roger Cook will become...
The Antarctic continent conjures visions of white ice and blue sky. But not far from Australia’s Casey Station, 3,880km due south of Perth, moss...
The excitement generated by the 2023 Eurovision contest was palpable. Members of my family, like thousands of Australians, were awake at 5am on a...
New research on old bones has shed light on pterosaur fossils from the early Cretaceous period of Australia, which took place roughly 107 million...
Australian students’ performance and engagement in mathematics is an ongoing issue. International studies show Australian students’ mean...
When the American legal precedent protecting women’s right to an abortion in the United States, Roe versus Wade, was overturned last year, women...
A campaign by the activist group Fight Transphobia UniMelb against feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith escalated recently. There have been...
Readers please be advised this article mentions acts of intimate partner violence against First Nations people. Indigenous women are eight times...
A free trade agreement between Australia and the United Kingdom begins on Wednesday. When it was announced in 2021, then-prime ministers Boris...
Since its founding in 2016, Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company Neuralink has had the ambitious mission to build a next-generation brain implant...
Millions of people listen to podcasts each year. Podcast content is diverse, with popular genres including true crime, comedy, and society and...
Like Kevin Rudd before him, Anthony Albanese is taking an odd approach to evidence. Before becoming prime minister in 2007, Rudd promised to deliver...
The huge blaze that struck Randle Street in central Sydney last week is now the subject of an arson investigation, authorities have confirmed. Many...
Ethicists argue that healthcare is special. Unlike other consumer goods, its availability and accessibility should be based on need rather than...
NATO’s incursion into the Indo-Pacific region is a move that will exacerbate regional conflicts and tensions. That’s because NATO cannot be...
Australian consumers are painfully aware of the energy cost crisis. And from July 1, electricity bills are set to rise by a further 20-25% across...
For decades, crossbreeding between dingoes and dogs has been considered the greatest threat to dingo conservation. Previous DNA studies suggested...
The weather is getting chilly and the pool is looking less inviting than ever. At this time of year, with cooler temperatures and shorter days,...
Being on social media has become synonymous with living in the 21st century. Year after year, we see new platforms and smarter algorithms roping us...
New Zealand’s 2016 Kaikōura earthquake stopped the Waiau Toa – also known as the Clarence River – in its course. Within hours, the river...
In September 1953, Rupert Murdoch arrived in sleepy Adelaide to take up his inheritance of News Limited. He was only 22 and had little experience...
Stray cats are a longstanding problem in Australian towns and cities. Common complaints about roaming cats include nuisance (fighting and...
Recep Tayyib Erdogan will remain president of Turkey for another five years after winning Sunday’s run-off election over his long-time rival,...
Joshua Cohen’s ribald campus novel The Netanyahus (2021), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is set during the winter of 1959-60. It depicts Ben-Zion...
Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan has announced he is quitting as premier and leaving parliament. In a shock announcement, McGowan told a...
Recep Tayyib Erdogan will remain president of Turkey for another five years after winning Sunday’s run-off election over his long-time rival,...
One of the most dominant premiers in recent Australian political history, Mark McGowan, has resigned as Western Australian premier and the member...
When the National Party’s transport spokesperson, Simeon Brown, questioned the logic of bilingual traffic signs, he seemed to echo his leader...
Last night at 11:41pm local time, the greater Melbourne region was shaken by a magnitude 4.0 earthquake – as calculated by the Seismology...
“We in the media must ask if we are truly honouring a world worth living in. Too often we are the poison in the bloodstream of our society.” So...
When people decide it’s time to lose weight, they’re usually keen to see quick results. Maybe they have an event coming up or want relief from...
Milton Moon (1926-2019) was not your regular potter. He was deeply imbued with Zen Buddhism and once said each vessel is a container for thoughts,...
Mermaids are multicultural mythical figures, reflecting the continuing human fascination with the sea in stories echoing thousands of years into...
This week in Paris, negotiators from around the world are convening for a United Nations meeting. They will tackle a thorny problem: finding a...
This article is part of our series on big ideas for the Universities Accord. The federal government is calling for ideas to “reshape and...
Australia’s housing crisis is no secret. What many people don’t realise is that there’s another, less visible housing crisis. Australia’s...
As Australia heads towards the fourth winter of the pandemic, we have once again started seeing an increase in the level of COVID circulating. With...
Does the proposal for a Voice to Parliament prefigure a distinctive conception of democracy for Australia? A steady drumbeat of criticism to date...
The Voice to Parliament is supported by nearly 90% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and provides an opportunity for an...
Can a computer learn from the past and anticipate what will happen next, like a human? You might not be surprised to hear that some cutting-edge AI...
Noongar Country of southwestern Australia is home to the world’s largest parasitic plant, a mighty mistletoe that blooms every December. That’s...
Today marks the sixth anniversary of the Uluru Statement From the Heart, and National Sorry Day. The statement is a powerful document that speaks...
This week the Five Eyes alliance – an intelligence alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and the United States –...
Sydney has awoken to the smouldering ruins of its largest city fire in 55 years. The “abandoned building” in Randle Street, Surry Hills, adjacent...
When Jason Paris, head of the company that sponsors the New Zealand Warriors NRL team, complained recently about Australian referee bias, more than...
How does your brain know how to move your body? – Ivy, age 8, Victoria Hi Ivy, thanks for asking such an interesting question! To answer it,...