In the library of Inglewood State School - a three-hour, sleep-inducing drive west from Brisbane - Jim Lyons discusses Scarlett Johansson with students from years seven and eight. He shows them a ...

How creating sculpture for animals is transforming wildlife conservation and the art world At the end of winter, I came across a little penguin on our local beach. It was the first penguin I had seen ...

It was the place where Manning first began intuiting social class, a theme that would obsessively dominate his history of ...

Just a short drive from the Portuguese university town of Coimbra, in Vale de Canas, a sea of eucalypts extends to the horizon in all directions. The tallest tree in Europe sprouted here 120 years ago ...

The Scott Morrison who claims that deterring boat people from ever embarking on the hazardous journey across the Indian Ocean ...

Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, has on his shelves a copy of Microcosmographia Academica, the classic university satire, written by the University of Cambridge scholar ...

Sometimes it seems to me that, in the end, the only thing that people have got going for them is imagination. At times of ...

GetUp! (how people detest that little exclamation mark) grew slowly at first. From its initial campaign – warning Coalition senators that ordinary Australians would hold them to account after the ...

All this emboldened Australia to take responsibility for its own defence. In November 1976, the Fraser government tabled a White Paper that said we should be able to defend the continent without ...

In a world where people are increasingly quick to judge, where difficult issues are reduced to binary judgements, poetry ...