Among the countless online resources devoted to “the future of work” is a video that is required viewing for the Year 10 class at my daughter’s...
Where do musical ideas come from? It’s a question, I suppose, for scientists as much as composers. I have no idea where mine come from and...
When John Howard announced that Australians were heading for the polls in late 2007 I was in my second year as editor of the Canberra Times....
Mainstream media outlets continue to suggest the presidential election will be decided by a historically wide gender gap, with women much more likely to side with...
I write this on my return from Carlton’s Cinema Nova, where Paul Barclay, presenter of Radio National’s Big Ideas, was discussing a recently published memoir, A...
Reading the well-known English satirist Craig Brown’s latest book, A Voyage around the Queen, I’m struck again by how, in terms of symbolic theatre, republics pale...
The fascinating story of how two new books — Sandhill Girl and Enlightened Aboriginal Futures — came into being centres on three people: the Lutheran missionary...
On picking up a copy of Lauren Samuelsson’s A Matter of Taste: The Australian Women’s Weekly and Its Influence on Australian Food Culture, some eager readers...
“We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant political parties a few...
Peter Parker begins the first of a projected three volumes on gay life in London, this one from 1945 to 1959, by quoting the novelist E.M....