Bushfires: can ecosystems recover from such dramatic losses of biodiversity?
SPECIAL FEATURE: The ecological costs of huge, repetitive, high-severity fires on ecosystems could be colossal.
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Some say we’ve seen bushfires worse than this before. But they’re ignoring a few key facts
SPECIAL FEATURE: Climate change is making extreme events even more severe, resulting in unprecedented conditions that are rewriting our nation’s...
How to donate to Australian bushfire relief: give money, watch for scams and think long term
SPECIAL FEATURE: One thing to be mindful of during times like these, is that unfortunately some people may seek to...
Photos of Australia from space, before and after the bushfires and drought
'This crisis has been unfolding for years'. NASA images reveal a ravaged continent.
Making sense of Australia’s bushfire crisis means asking hard questions – and listening to the answers
SPECIAL FEATURE: I should have twigged straight away. At 8am the sky was a gruesome orange-black, the surrounding bush freakishly...
#travelgram: live tourist snaps have turned solo adventures into social occasions
The “instagrammability” of a destination is a key motivation for younger people to travel there - even if filters and...
How Christmas has been shaped through the ages by advertising
SPECIAL FEATURE: Christmas as we know it today has its origins in Victorian Britain. But by 1874, Father Christmas had...
Your Christmas shopping could harm or help the planet. Which will it be?
Australians spent $400 million on unwanted Christmas gifts last year. There must be a better way.
What kind of Brexit will Britain now ‘get done’ after Boris Johnson’s thumping election win?
OPINION & ANALYSIS: Despite being one of the best-known and biggest characters in British politics, so much remains uncertain about...
The British election explained in five key phrases
SPECIAL FEATURE: It almost seems as if, for many voters, the election is more about who they don’t want than...
2019 was a year of global unrest, spurred by anger at rising inequality – and 2020 is likely to be worse
SPECIAL FEATURE: 2019 may go down as the most disrupted year in global politics since the fall of the Berlin...
Lessons on terrorism and rehabilitation from the London Bridge attack
OPINION & ANALYSIS: In a deeply tragic irony, the two victims who lost their lives to a man who made...
Vale Clive James – a marvellous low voice whose gracious good humour let others shine
OBITUARY: Along with Germaine Greer, Barry Humphries and Robert Hughes, Clive James was known as part of an elite group...
Chinese ‘spy’ case may be the greatest challenge to Australian security since Petrov – but caution is needed
OPINION & ANALYSIS: If this alleged attempted interference by China is proved – if it is indeed provable – this...
Big men do cry: cricketers are leading the charge for inclusive masculinity
SPECIAL FEATURE: Negative stereotypes associated with mental health issues were once a matter of shame and embarrassment, only to be...
Mr Morrison, I lost my home to bushfire. Your thoughts and prayers are not enough
OPINION & ANALYSIS: Fire officials warn that this week's catastrophic fire conditions are "where people die". Climate change has arrived,...
Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze
OPINION & ANALYSIS: These unprecedented fires are an indication that a much-feared future under climate change may have arrived earlier...
Australia is spending less on diplomacy than ever before – and its influence is suffering as a result
OPINION & ANALYSIS: The aspirations for our diplomacy must be upgraded beyond the bare minimum. Ten years on from Diplomatic...
Halloween history: tricking and treating goes back thousands of years
SPECIAL FEATURE: From deathly pagan ritual to ghoulish dress-ups fun, this is how today’s Halloween tradition came to evolve.
Victorian police now have ‘shoot to kill’ powers when cars are used as weapons: here’s why this matters
OPINION & ANALYSIS: There are clearly risks in shooting at a moving vehicle. Unlike what happens in films, bullets generally...
Australia needs a Media Freedom Act. Here’s how it could work
OPINION & ANALYSIS: The imperative to protect press freedom is fundamental and deserving of general recognition and protection. In light...
Australia is facing a looming cyber emergency, and we don’t have the high-tech workforce to counter it
OPINION & ANALYSIS: Nick Warner, the new director general of the Office of National Intelligence, has sounded the alarm about...
How Australians talk about tucker is a story that’ll make you want to eat the bum out of an elephant
SPECIAL FEATURE: Not to put a damper on things, but Australian food hasn’t always made us happy little Vegemites.
Oi! We’re not lazy yarners, so let’s kill the cringe and love our Aussie accents
SPECIAL FEATURE: Let’s stop spreading nonsense about how lazy Australian accents are and all these cultural cringe-tinged myths.
Talk Like a Pirate Day: here’s how pirate words arrr preserving old language
Why would anyone 'shiver their timbers'? There’s no shortage of special days throughout the year. Some, like International Literacy Day,...
Civilization: The Way We Live Now – powerful, troubling photographs of a crowded planet and uncertain future
SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC FEATURE: An important milestone exhibition that raises questions of the single planetary civilisation that is now evolving, where...
As Scott Morrison heads to Washington, the US-Australia alliance is unlikely to change
OPINION & ANALYSIS: Trump isn’t the first deeply unpopular president Australia has seen and he won’t be the last.
Climate change is bringing a new world of bushfires to Australia
OPINION & ANALYSIS: While fire is a normal part of Australia’s yearly cycle and no two years are alike, what...
Framing the fearful symmetry of nature: the year’s best photos of landscapes and living things
PHOTOS: Each photographer has brought a different perspective on nature. Each of these can enhance your worldview - allowing you...
The Great Barrier Reef outlook is ‘very poor’. We have one last chance to save it
OPINION & ANALYSIS: As Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise - an outcome supported by government policy - the...
Religious Discrimination Bill is a mess that risks privileging people of faith above all others
OPINION & ANALYSIS: We should not have one model of special protection for religious faith and a lesser model of...
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