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

Washington’s ambitions in the region aren’t going unopposed. Among the groups challenging the dominant narrative of the Micronesian islands as “the tip of the spear” for the US military in the western ...

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 ...

What happened when the satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer, who died on Saturday at ninety-seven, came to puritanical Adelaide in 1960?

The world’s highest court has just given the Australian government a giant climate headache. For all the rhetorical, political and practical support Australia offers the small Pacific island ...

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 ...

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

If you are old enough to remember ANZAAS congresses, you might be wondering what happened to them. The last one was held in Adelaide in 1997. ANZAAS lives on, still following its mission of promoting ...

The United States is slip-sliding towards authoritarianism under Donald Trump. Elected leaders in Israel, Turkey and Hungary have blurred the line between democracy and dictatorship. North Korean ...

Few who sat down to hear Ken Henry speak about environment law this week would have been surprised by his blunt analysis. But they may not have expected the sharply plain-speaking former Treasury head ...

The photobooth portrait is, as many have noticed, a kind of proto selfie, one that is largely free of the overlay of irony and knowingness so characteristic of that more recent genre. What the ...

Arrogant, disrespectful, racist and a liar. When the Northern Territory coroner presented her 683-page report on the death of nineteen-year-old Kumanjayi Walker on Monday, those were some of the ...