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.
Statistician and researcher Katherine Thomas broke new ground for women in the fields of statistics and education research.
The flat-earthers and denialists are rising.
Journalists tend to treat Trump's sexism as an episodic flare-up rather than a central strategy of his campaign.
And now for the hard part.
With still a quarter of 2016 left WA is well on the way to surpassing last year's road toll.
Fear of the other is alive and well, and damaging.
Canberra's worthless light-rail project is the symbol of a sick government.
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.
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 Abbott and Turnbull governments' insouciance to global environmental challenges could not come at a worse time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He had the ability to anticipate trends.
Terence Brady forged a career as a writer for the stage and screen, a journalist, novelist, actor and painter.
Atomic weapons and flying saucers.
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?
Christmas fast approaching. There, I said it.
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.
Thieves executed
It's quite apt that the term 'flamethrower' is so often used to describe feminist Clementine Ford.
Parliament is not able to properly hold its own members to account.
The AFL's Sydney teams are going from strength to strength.
The Turnbull government is said to have had its best fortnight yet but its three cited achievements were all capitulations to someone else.
As with so many ACT government deals, the problem is the look of the thing, rather than the thing itself.
Bring it in tight. Those of us who are climate change deniers need to be singing from the same hymn sheet.
In the time that Australia has had four prime ministers, the Labor Party's organisation has had just one leader.
That was the first word of the little bloke that I heard. Gogs. Meaning dogs.