In Year 10, my English teacher loaned me one of her favourite novels, Fortune’s Rocks. This was not the first novel she’d given me but it...
Having spent the better part of a year in deep freeze—with some five million people forced to live, work and socialise under state-sanctioned house arrest—Melbourne is...
Turning 21 is a big deal in many cultures. But if you’re a female member of the Zulu tribe in South Africa, and you’re a virgin,...
I meet Julian in a cafe in Bowral, about an hour and a half south-west of Sydney. He’s a tall guy, mid-40s, with a loud cackle...
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At 11:59PM on Tuesday, October 27, the Australian city of Melbourne emerged from one of the longest coronavirus lockdowns in the world. A 112-day shutdown of...
Haunted hotels are uniquely terrifying. There’s just something about their scale (hundreds, sometimes thousands of rooms) and the fact that you never know who’s stayed in...
Nauru is the world’s smallest island nation, and home to one of Australia’s three infamous offshore immigration detention facilities. Since the Australian Government implemented their “Pacific...
Australia has a complex relationship with euthanasia, or voluntary assisted dying (VAD) as it’s now often called. The states of New South Wales, Tasmania and South...
Photo via Getty, Anthony Wallace / Contributor A team of Australian scientists has discovered that the virus responsible for COVID-19 can survive on the screens of smartphones,...