Good Weekend
'The world is a safe space for white, heterosexual men, so why the f... can't we have one space for ourselves?'
Australian universities have become a flashpoint for free speech, with the left and right increasingly deaf to each other’s views.
- by Tim Elliott
Latest
Deborah Conway on music, missed opportunities and #MeToo
Some expected Deborah Conway to become world-famous in the 1990s. But the feisty Melburnian was never going to sell out - and that's not changed. So what has?
- by Melissa Fyfe
Two of Us
The couple who saved each other from a heart attack, five years apart
When Alistair suffered a heart attack in 2012, his wife, Fran, gave him life-saving CPR. When Fran collapsed five years later, Alistair did the same for her.
- by Laura McGeoch
Australia
Can Justin Langer save Australian men’s cricket?
He meditates, has a boxing kangaroo tattoo and loves a motivational quote. How will head coach Justin Langer change the baggy greens' culture?
- by Jane Cadzow
Population
Australasia rising: who we are becoming
When better than Australia Day to examine the rapid shifts in our make-up - and what it means for our future.
- by George Megalogenis
Indigenous
'I want to teach our knowledge. I want to bridge the gap'
Inheriting her preacher father’s sense of the theatrical, Rhoda Roberts overcame a series of terrible events to become one of Australia’s leading arts figures.
- by Candida Baker
Two of Us
The pair who have cleaned every prime minister's office since Bob Hawke
Luzia Borges and Anna Jancevski have worked together at Parliament House in Canberra for 30 years.
- by Jane Cadzow
Back Chat: Good Weekend letters to the editor, January 26
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Spotlight
Gum trees and the fight against global warming
Australia has been placed on a WWF International list of global deforestation hot spots – the only one in the developed world.
- by Greg Callaghan
Foreign correspondence
My year without male authors
This wasn't by design. I speculated that it was a subconscious response to the times, dominated by the excesses of powerful men.
- by Amelia Lester
Yoga
My daily practice of avoiding yoga
My wife and I begin every holiday season by observing certain rituals, one of which is promising to do more yoga. But here is why we did exactly one session.
- by Tim Elliott