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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

It takes something for a prime minister with a majority of 156 to contrive a parliamentary defeat. But that was Sir Keir Starmer’s singular achievement this week. Or it would have been, had he not ...

In their bestselling book Abundance American journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that rich countries can be much richer. Their citizens can be healthier, their environment more salubrious, ...