
Society
September 1, 2021The agony and ecstasy
Clinical trials in Perth will study the use of MDMA to treat PTSD and addiction
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Society
September 1, 2021The agony and ecstasy
Clinical trials in Perth will study the use of MDMA to treat PTSD and addiction
Society
August 1, 2021A trip to the doctor
A personal experience of how psychedelics are transforming mental health therapies
Society
April 1, 2021Plight of the platypus
Extreme weather events are affecting this monotreme in unforeseen ways
Society
February 1, 2021A reef history of time
The effort to restore Australia’s once-vast oyster ecosystems
Society
April 1, 2019How Australia’s coal madness led to Adani
The real reasons keeping the Carmichael mine alive
Society
August 1, 2018The end of the oceans
The world’s oceans and all marine life are on the brink of total collapse
Society
November 1, 2017The Great Southern Reef
What is killing off the kelp forests along Australia’s coast?
Society
April 1, 2017Fish have feelings too
Under-the-sea society is much more complex than we imagine
Society
March 1, 2016Slippery migrants
What eels do when we’re not watching
Culture
December 1, 2015‘The Natural Way of Things’ by Charlotte Wood
Allen & Unwin; $29.99
Christos Tsiolkas
November 1, 2013Christos Tsiolkas’ ‘Barracuda’
All fired up
Society
September 4, 2009Ningaloo sharks
It takes little more than two hours for the spotter planes to locate the first whale shark of the day. Along with the two-dozen or so others who have paid several hundred dollars to spend a day diving with the sharks, I don my mask and flippers in readiness …
arts
June 4, 2008‘Big Love’, Season 2, SBS Television
It's easy to imagine the pitch for HBO's polygamist drama, Big Love: Everything a normal family faces, times three. It's a neat formula, and it captures much of the pleasure of the series, which centres on the ever-expanding family of the Utah …
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June 1, 2005‘Birds of Australia’s Top End’ by Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
Early on in these pages, Denise Goodfellow marks out some territory. Relating her Aboriginal sister’s reaction to a picture of a cassowary (“What’s this? Different emu?”), she declares: “Rather mischievously I did consider adopting the classificatory …