“Scarborough Fair” is what Ellen Stekert calls a “go around song,” one that is passed from singer to singer, down centuries, ...

If citizens don’t have confidence in their public services, at least on balance, they will be more reluctant to pay taxes and the extent and quality of services will spiral downwards. It’s worth ...

Does anyone remember “American carnage”? In his 2017 inaugural address Donald Trump portrayed a collapsing society, emphasising in particular the “crime and gangs and drugs” destroying America’s ...

When Albanese’s eviction legislation passed in June 2023, Russia asked the High Court to put the repossession on hold until it could rule on the legislation’s validity. Justice Jayne Jagot rejected ...

The importance of the clitoris to women’s sexual pleasure is a lesson that still has to be taught. Meanwhile, the “vaginal orgasm” that Freud invented lives on as the G-spot, a reportedly erogenous ...

The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer calls it “a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science.” Donald Trump’s administration seems intent on dismantling the educational ...

“Private health insurance is in our DNA,” Tony Abbott declared back in 2012 when the Gillard government legislated to means test the private health insurance rebate, the government subsidy to ...

John Newfong was excited when he was hired as a reporter on the Australian in 1971. The first Aboriginal journalist to work in the established print media, he would be learning from the renowned ...

In my day job, I run a lab dedicated to research and development in AI for law enforcement and community safety. We’re preoccupied with building what’s euphemistically described as “technology for ...