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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s refreshing to learn that treasurer Jim Chalmers is willing to entertain more substantial tax reforms than the ones Labor took to this year’s election (principally, the proposed increases in ...

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 ...

It’s a niche category, I know: but who’s your favourite American visitor to Australia? My vote goes to Mark Twain, who wrote during his wildly successful 1895 speaking tour that the Australian story ...

Essays & reportage The trickle-down theory of schooling Dean Ashenden 6 March 2025 An organisation set up to distribute academic research to teachers gets off on the wrong foot, and stays there ...

Books & arts A kind of elegy Susan Lever 27 June 2025 An award-winning memoir honours cultures old and new ...

Books & arts Working-class hero Brett Evans 24 April 2024 Gary Stevenson’s epiphany came once he’d joined the top ranks of London’s foreign-exchange traders Books & arts The teal thing Brett Evans 24 ...