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,...
Friday, November 15, 2019
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...
George Pell has lost his appeal. What did the court decide and what happens now?
SPECIAL FEATURE: Save for a successful appeal in the High Court, Pope Francis will likely expel Pell from the priesthood....
Inside China’s vast influence network – how it works, and its reach in Australia
SPECIAL FEATURE: The operations of the Chinese Communist Party are generally opaque, especially to outsiders. But in recent years, the...
‘Alt-right white extremism’ or conservative mobilising: what are CPAC’s aims in Australia?
OPINION & ANALYSIS: Nigel Farage is due to make a return to Australia at this weekend’s CPAC event, alongside Tony...
Language of love: a quarter of Australians are in inter-ethnic relationships
SPECIAL FEATURE: Australia’s rate of inter-ethnic relationships shows Australia is an open society that embraces its vibrant ethnic and cultural...
Boris Johnson, ‘political Vegemite’, becomes the UK prime minister. Let the games begin
OPINION & ANALYSIS: New UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will succeed or fail on the back of the single dominant...
1 in 5 Australians is a victim of ‘revenge porn’, despite new laws to prevent it
SPECIAL FEATURE: Also known as “non-consensual pornography” or “revenge porn”, image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) is an invasion of a person’s...
England win Men’s Cricket World Cup in a last-ball thriller – now will the country see more matches on free TV?
No World Cup final could have been more exciting or demonstrated so clearly the passion, excitement and camaraderie that sport...
Listening with ‘our ears and our eyes’: Ken Wyatt’s big promises on Indigenous affairs
OPINION & ANALYSIS: In his first major policy address, Ken Wyatt noted how previous governments have failed Indigenous Australians with...
Testing festival goers’ pills isn’t the only way to reduce overdoses. Here’s what else works
SPECIAL FEATURE: Festival goers bring their phones. So why not use them to receive tweets about high-dose drugs in circulation,...
Five reasons English speakers struggle to learn foreign languages
SPECIAL FEATURE: So, what are the difficulties English speakers face when learning other languages? Here are a few of the...
The numbers game: how Ash Barty became the world’s best female tennis player
OPINION & ANALYSIS: That Ashleigh Barty has maintained her integrity and stayed true to who she is throughout her rise...
With cryptocurrency launch, Facebook sets its path toward becoming an independent nation
OPINION & ANALYSIS: Society cannot withstand a launch of a cryptocurrency in Facebook’s infamous “move fast and break things” style.
Hong Kong in crisis over relationship with China – and there does not appear to be a good solution
OPINION & ANALYSIS: Mass pro-democracy demonstrations have underscored the fact that Hong Kong residents are fearful of creeping mainland control....
Why the Israel Folau case could set an important precedent for employment law and religious freedom in Australia
OPINION & ANALYSIS: The Folau case is an important opportunity to see whether the right to express religious views can...
PETER GRESTE: To protect press freedom, we need more public outrage – and an overhaul of our laws
OPINION & ANALYSIS: The police raids on the ABC and a News Corp journalist have forced us to think again...
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