Margaret Walkom was so formidably clever I sometimes wonder if even her parents weren’t sometimes intimidated by her. In December 1931 her photograph appeared in the...
For the shrinking fraction of the public that is even dimly aware of it, the image of psychoanalysis tends to be tarnished. Some of the lost...
Last week Donald Trump used social media to make a splash. Nothing unusual about that, except that this time the American president was announcing his country...
The website pepysdiary.com has been posting daily entries from Samuel Pepys’s 1660s diary since 2003, each entry inviting comments from readers. Since the diary itself ran...
“I can now confidentially conclude,” says Christopher Ojeda, that “politics is depressing, and depression is demobilising.” To support this claim Ojeda, an assistant professor of political...
Indo-Pacific leaders have gathered in Malaysia and South Korea this week to gauge how the power game is going. The ceremony couldn’t conceal the apprehension, even...
Having lived in the United States for my nineteen earliest years and then spent sixty-seven years in Australia (minus a five-and-half-year interlude in Canada) I’ve been...
The proceedings of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization don’t normally make headline news. (Except perhaps in Ocean Freight Times.) But the...
In June 2010 an Australian special forces unit stumbled into an intense fight with a vastly larger force of Taliban insurgents. The battle would become the...
The major social and cultural changes Australia experienced in the second half of the twentieth century were assisted by two key phenomena: television and immigration. Neither...