A brutal ‘sport’ that may leave contestants with brain damage
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) president Dana White has created a new brutal sport: Power Slap…
Australia is to have a poet laureate – how will the first appointment define us as a nation?
Poetry has often been a matter of nation building, including in Australia. Who hasn’t learnt…
Nobel Prize Winner Stiglitz wants 70% tax on top incomes
Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz is concerned about increasing social inequality in the world. The…
Earwigs are the hero single mothers of the insect world – and good for your garden too
You lift a stone and staring up at you is a little insect with its…
Treasurer Jim Chalmers answers critics of his ‘values-based capitalism’
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has rejected as “laughable” criticism he has turned his back on the…
What the new national cultural policy could mean for Australia – if it all comes together
It’s finally been launched. A new cultural policy for Australia. After years (actually decades) of…
After years of austerity, Revive writes the next chapter in Australian literary culture
The Albanese government’s Revive is Australia’s first national cultural policy in ten years. The last…
A tiny radioactive capsule is lost on a highway in Western Australia. Here’s what you need to know
On January 12 a truck pulled out of Rio Tinto’s Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in…
Red Warnings for Heavy Rain issued in Northland, Auckland north of Orewa, and the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand
Another atmospheric river event is forecast to bring more heavy rain across parts of New…
Coroner calls for urgent bail reform in Veronica Nelson inquest
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and/or images of…