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

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 ...

Of all the economic problems proclaimed in the run-up to next week’s economic summit, the most alarming is that business investment is very weak. “Business investment has fallen notably over the past ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts ...

The post-American world arrived with a bang when Donald Trump declared a pox on Pax Americana. The gradual erosion of American leadership went into hyperdrive because Trump sees international ...

For well over a decade, Australian policy-makers, journalists and commentators have been absorbed by the question of whether governments have the capacity for significant reform. Can they deliver the ...

The new British guidelines cast Australia’s environmental assessment processes for fossil fuel projects in an unflattering light, to say the least. But the British government is taking a more direct ...