Taronga Zoo
It's the first successful short-beaked Echidna birth in 30 years.
Elspeth Dehnert
A group of women in Jordan are defying gender roles for a career on the road. While it's not easy working in a male-dominated sector, the country's female taxi drivers are willing to challenge the nay...
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The moment the world fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, he was coated in the yellow shadow of a sunset, puffing on a cigarette and journaling about "brawling love" and "loving hate." He trudged acro...
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By now, most art history devotees know that on Christmas Eve in 1888, painter Vincent van Gogh allegedly took a razor to his left ear and chopped the appendage right off. Nearly none of them, however,...
A Life Of Its Own
She left commercial TV to be the voice of Australians suffering in silence.
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If this month's Elena Ferrante–related news has taught us anything about our reading habits, it's that we're obse ed with authorship. The woman behind the popular Neapolitan novels wished to rem...
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Latest figures show tradies' positions are the most 'in demand'.
Liam Norris
Books can build bonds between generations.
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An obligation to read is no kind of incentive to pick up a book, and it often has the opposite effect, rendering the intended reader incapable of turning off the television or logging off Facebook.
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There were many notorious Victorian bushrangers, apart from the Kelly gang.
Russell Latter
Jimmy the koala became an international poster boy for needy koalas.
Robert Daly
Look at their successes as well as their failures.
Monsanto is expanding in a country it once helped destroy.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam ― Fifty-five years ago this month, the U.S. Army began spraying millions of gallons of the toxic defoliant known as Agent Orange over large swaths of southern Vietnam. Today,...