Lessons from Australia’s worst bushfires

The strange and beautiful world of orchids and how they’ve seduced us

Tasmanian devils may soon be returning to the wild on the mainland

The I-Kiribati Olympic sprinter hoping to draw attention to his nation’s climate catastrophe

A court ruling that the environment minister owes children a duty of care to prevent climate harm has far-reaching implications

A wildlife sanctuary in the Great Sandy Desert is studying how Indigenous fire management can protect biodiversity

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope

An open letter to Jon Faine: esteemed commentator, vintage car lover and schadenfreude enthusiast

What is the cost of persistently reporting one’s observations?

When should allegations against senior politicians be published?

Despite a widely supported petition, the government is too scared to take on the Murdoch empire

The government is your servant, not your friend

Clinical trials in Perth will study the use of MDMA to treat PTSD and addiction

A personal experience of how psychedelics are transforming mental health therapies

The Foo Fighters’ AIDS denialism should be on the record

Case studies of systemic failure in Victoria’s fight against coronavirus

What chronic illness can teach us about the limits of the healthcare system during a global crisis

Thirty years on from the excoriating royal commission, two practitioners of deep sleep therapy seek redemption in a defamation case that again blames Scientologists for their downfall

Financial institutions, investment funds and governments are being held to account over the costs of climate change

The Morrison government is yet to fully realise that sidelining the arts hurts the economy

We need to talk about the economy

What if Frydenberg had actually created a budget for the times?

So what is MMT and why should you care?

Inside the modern debt-collection industry

Saving Canowindra’s ancient fish fossils

Mark McKenna explores Australia’s history of violence, dispossession and deception through one tragic incident

Fifty years after ‘A New Britannia’, whatever happened to the revolution?

Humphrey McQueen’s influential book questioned the nation-building myths of the time

The pioneer of publishing and women’s rights has been unjustly overshadowed by regard for her famous son, Henry

The Palace Letters confirm the Crown’s neutrality is irrevocably compromised

A green hydrogen project in South Australia aims to demonstrate zero-emission energy production

A revived interest in alien visitation only underscores how little we know about the universe

Breakthroughs in embryo science may lead to replacement human organs, if we can agree on the ethics

Brain–computer interfaces promise communication capabilities for those paralysed by neurological dysfunction

The myth of the ‘overview effect’, and how it serves space industry entrepreneurs

Does the detection of phosphine gas point to life among Venus’s clouds?

Casualisation and relentless cost-cutting have destroyed the credibility of Australian universities

Universities are in trouble, and the government isn’t helping

If Footscray Primary’s Vietnamese program ends, what else is lost?

When it comes to China’s influence, Australian universities have been burying their heads in the sand for too long

The Coalition’s political agenda is a gross infringement on academic freedom

University fees have never functioned as a price signal in the way the government is anticipating

Why have Australia–China relations deteriorated so comprehensively, and what can Australia do to restore them?

On Australia’s relations with China

The work of combatting Sinophobia must be combined with a critique of Australian foreign policies

On the China Dream and the guiding ideology of Xi Jinping

New revelations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan

The Australian surfers battling Chinese developers in Fiji

Joost Bakker’s vision for sustainable housing is taking root

MasterChef conceals and reveals Australian racism

The end of the cow is near as animal-free milk is likely to decimate the traditional dairy industry within the decade, and plant-based meat is set to upend the beef market

Sprout farmer Bruce Adams has created one of Australia’s more unlikely oversized highway attractions

Dissecting dietary fads and habits

Join the queue for Tasmania’s most sought-after Japanese

A solo road trip back to harsh realities

A visit to Ürümqi’s quieted streets and contested museums

When international ports close, what happens to those at sea?

How Port Douglas, the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree, has been quieted by lockdown

A former Russian athlete’s plan for Australia’s first commercial sub

A new four-day tour in Tasmania is owned and guided by Aboriginal people

How piecemeal relationship and sexuality education is failing our schoolchildren

Traditionally offering non-medical support to women during pregnancy, doulas are now providing care during abortions

Keeping mum about the Easter Bunny

Having survived Afghanistan as a counterintelligence officer, a traumatised vet and his family lost their farm in the Adelaide Hills bushfires

The security business partnering with domestic violence services to help women and children escape abuse

Dwindling stocks of Australian sperm have fertility clinics looking overseas and couples looking online

The alleged murder of Kumanjayi Walker by a police officer has ignited a legal quandary

On the sentencing of Richard Pusey for outraging public decency

The Territory abandons the Don Dale royal commission reforms

The trial of Keith Nye highlights how fisheries laws unfairly target Indigenous people

Addressing the national scourge of domestic violence

Criminal law is not the only legal avenue to consider Christian Porter’s accountability and his future

Fortescue Metals Group has a history of “unconscionable” settlements with Indigenous custodians

Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s ‘Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?’ challenges ideas of progress championed by Bruce Pascoe

Indigenous writing in Australia is far from uniform, and is all the richer for it

The untold Aboriginal history of the R.M. Williams boot

The Marram-Ngala Ganbu program is transforming the experience of Indigenous families in court

Constitutional protection is essential if the voice to parliament is to be a meaningful change

Julian Assange’s extradition trial continues as an attack on journalism

Was ‘Australia’s James Bond’ working for the KGB? Or ASIO? Or both?

The risk posed by the global weapons complex is much worse than you know

The third volume in ASIO’s official history confirms infiltration by Soviet intelligence

The dispute over the South China Sea will come to affect more than just China’s near neighbours

John Blaxland’s ‘The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO 1963–1975’

What shifting notions of sex and gender mean for affirmative action in the workplace

A senator’s fight against Australia’s racism and sexism

An opportunity for rethinking the position of women in contemporary art

Helping trans and non-binary gendered people define their vocal identity

The Queensland Labor MP on the hustings and the hating

Work as a stripper wasn’t quite what this newcomer imagined

Home truths from the Euro 2020 tournament

Once a male-heavy sport contested by dynastic families, competitive woodchopping is increasingly attracting strong women

After an extraordinary week in football, fans of all stripes have something to celebrate

Deathmatch Downunder is making wrestling progressive, accessible and inclusive

How decades after Murdoch and Packer destroyed the popular appeal of a game created for the masses, Peter V’landys is putting rugby league back on top

Athlete Claire Keefer trains for a Paralympics now postponed

What can be done about anti-vaxxers and the far right’s rights-based critique of vaccination?

The battlelines are blurring as Melbourne’s lockdown protests heat up

Why do we object more to mandated vaccination than mandated lockdowns?

Rather than prompting reform, the COVID emergency has hardened the major parties’ neoliberal ideology

Despite historically high vaccination rates, Australia has developed a significant anti-vax movement in the middle of a global pandemic

How much responsibility does Rupert’s right bear for the spread of the Delta variant?