February 1, 2019
The Devil and Scott Morrison
Politics
What do we know about the prime minister’s Pentecostalism?
James Boyce
By this author
February 1, 2018
Decoding the dual-citizenship crisis
Politics
Australia’s founders would be shocked at today’s interpretation of the Constitution
August 1, 2018
Mike Parr’s invisible performance and Tasmania’s complex past
Culture
Underneath the bitumen in Hobart, history becomes art
November 1, 2017
Tablet or toilet?
Society
How transformative has the computer age really been?
July 14, 2014
The selfish gene
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene in 1976, the book that established his reputation and which, his closest supporters maintain, ‘takes pride of place among his achievements’. With it, he helped popularise the idea that not only the …
December 1, 2011
‘The Biggest Estate on Earth’ by Bill Gammage
arts
Modern environmental sensibility has not increased the number of Australians who are able to imagine what our dominant homelands – the coastlands of the temperate zone – were like before European settlement. Such has been the transformation of the …