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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

What strikes me most about the Aboriginal people I know is their generosity. Australian colonial history has given them endless reasons not to be generous, but still my Aboriginal friends and ...

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 ...

John Edwards is a Non Resident Fellow of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and an Adjunct Professor with the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University. He is a former ...

Donald Trump is suing Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal for US$10 billion, more than ten times the biggest defamation settlement in American history. In the earlier case, which cost Fox News US$787 ...

In his new collection of eight wide-ranging essays, the distinguished photographer Michael Collins makes a plea for the art of close observation. The viewer’s role is to look, not merely to glance and ...

Everyone can enjoy conspiracy theories. They offer a kind of speculative play, a winking challenge to authority. But what happens when the narrative takes control and becomes an all-consuming call to ...

Tasmania presents something of a political conundrum. Back in May 2023 its Liberal government fell into minority after the defection of two members, John Tucker and Lara Alexander. Premier Jeremy ...

Even as Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs’s book 90 Seconds to Midnight goes on sale in bookshops, its title has been overtaken by events. “90 seconds” was the time on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’s ...