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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

National affairs Riding high Paul Rodan 4 June 2025 The final election count adds up to a remarkable win for Labor, but history offers warnings ...

John Edwards is a Non Resident Fellow of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and an Adjunct Professor with the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University. He is a former ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

Attitudes towards a more generous refugee resettlement program are influenced by beliefs about how many migrants arrive each year. But making the calculation isn’t straightforward ...

The story of Elizabeth Macarthur, a driving force in early New South Wales, highlights some of the gaps in the story of colonial Australia, writes Michelle Scott Tucker ...

These risks may explain the second big concern about housing affordability: the worry that “my child can’t afford to buy a house.” While buying a first home might seem “affordable” if we only look at ...