Wartime radar operator was a trailblazer for women in maths
Statistician and researcher Katherine Thomas broke new ground for women in the fields of statistics and education research.
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Our new reality: the rising politics of stupid
The flat-earthers and denialists are rising.
How Trump turned white male entitlement into victimhood
Journalists tend to treat Trump's sexism as an episodic flare-up rather than a central strategy of his campaign.
Infrastructure Victoria's wish list is the easy part ...
And now for the hard part.
WA's road toll is everyone's responsibility
With still a quarter of 2016 left WA is well on the way to surpassing last year's road toll.
Ignorant Australians are the threat to my society
Fear of the other is alive and well, and damaging.
The local council's lost its way
Canberra's worthless light-rail project is the symbol of a sick government.
Why I stutter when I mention my husband in Australia
What little difference a year makes. Today I find myself, like many gay and lesbian Australians who have married overseas, in a state of marital limbo. A husband abroad, a boyfriend at home.
Playboy adds the hijab to its wardrobe of fetishes
By featuring a Muslim woman among its profiles, Playboy capitalised on a now-prevalent trend among American Muslims, and especially American Muslim women, to appear "normal" at all costs.
The coup that proved Australia could lead the world
The Abbott and Turnbull governments' insouciance to global environmental challenges could not come at a worse time.
Tennis Australia's spoof Twitter fail was an actual Twitter fail
Last week the Australian Open Twitter account sent out a post showcasing a new logo for the tournament – a man in silhouette holding up a giant A and O, one in each hand.
Another blow for jobs looms in the Latrobe Valley
Plans to privatise the operations of one of the largest and most used datasets in the country – the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Registry – is folly.
Howard is demonised beyond rational understanding
The University of Sydney's decision to award John Howard an honorary doctorate – and the campus backlash it has provoked – is an occasion to reflect on our nation's second-longest serving prime minister.
There's something worse than being fat-shamed by Trump
Alicia Machado's story doesn't challenge our toxic ideas about fat; it simply reinforces the idea that being fat is the worst thing a woman can be.
Michael donated a kidney at 18, and now he regrets it
The author, who is a medical student, says donors are lauded for their altruism for what is promoted as a benign procedure with low long-term risk. But there actually isn't much research to support those claims.
Retailer who brought us bikinis and Mary Quant
He had the ability to anticipate trends.
Scriptwriter behind Upstairs,Downstairs
Terence Brady forged a career as a writer for the stage and screen, a journalist, novelist, actor and painter.
In the Herald: October 4, 1952
Atomic weapons and flying saucers.
Why Labor's lawyers, nurses and teachers join blue-collar unions
So how many members of the state ALP caucus are members of unions, but have not worked in the industry sector covered by their union?
Don't end the year with unfinished business
Christmas fast approaching. There, I said it.
Get up and leave when your work is done
Too many of us proudly spend longer at work than at home, assuming that long days guarantee advancement, worshipping the clock as a perverse measure of achievement.
In the Herald: October 3, 1831
Thieves executed
The battle for feminism's final frontier
It's quite apt that the term 'flamethrower' is so often used to describe feminist Clementine Ford.
The trick to holding politicians and the public service accountable
Parliament is not able to properly hold its own members to account.
AFL is on its way to being our national game
The AFL's Sydney teams are going from strength to strength.
Turnbull can't lead a centre-right party with centre-left instincts
The Turnbull government is said to have had its best fortnight yet but its three cited achievements were all capitulations to someone else.
Andrew Barr belatedly sees the virtues of integrity commissions
As with so many ACT government deals, the problem is the look of the thing, rather than the thing itself.
Climate change deniers, listen up: your end is nigh
Bring it in tight. Those of us who are climate change deniers need to be singing from the same hymn sheet.
Labor loses a leader who outlasted many
In the time that Australia has had four prime ministers, the Labor Party's organisation has had just one leader.
Go Gogs! Never too young to take sides
That was the first word of the little bloke that I heard. Gogs. Meaning dogs.