With his strange machines and uncanny understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created an entirely new technique ...

Housing minister Clare O’Neil says it’s “just too hard” to build houses in this country because “builders face a ridiculous thicket of red tape.” That must change, she says, if we’re to tackle the ...

Hal Wootten in his prime looked like Clark Kent, and he was indeed a kind of Superman, a “giant,” a “towering figure” to obituarists. An exceptionally long life was even more exceptionally packed with ...

The most striking observation in Dean Spears and Michael Geruso’s new book, After the Spike, is summed up by the cover illustration, which shows a world population rising rapidly to its current eight ...

Young voters are back! Or maybe they never left. Articles and talk programs pondering whether the youth vote “might decide the outcome this time” have been staple pre-election fillers for decades.

Essays & reportage The trickle-down theory of schooling Dean Ashenden 6 March 2025 An organisation set up to distribute academic research to teachers gets off on the wrong foot, and stays there ...

Books & arts Not alone in the dark tunnel Tanya Dalziell 27 June 2025 Gail Jones’s latest novel echoes the preoccupations of much of her writing ...

Books & arts Working-class hero Brett Evans 24 April 2024 Gary Stevenson’s epiphany came once he’d joined the top ranks of London’s foreign-exchange traders Books & arts The teal thing Brett Evans 24 ...

National affairs Riding high Paul Rodan 4 June 2025 The final election count adds up to a remarkable win for Labor, but history offers warnings ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

The story of Elizabeth Macarthur, a driving force in early New South Wales, highlights some of the gaps in the story of colonial Australia, writes Michelle Scott Tucker ...

There’s no mystery about the strong sales of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu and its sequel for younger readers, Young Dark Emu: A Truer History. They have helped articulate a desire among non-Indigenous ...