This history of archaeology in Australia charts our changing relationship with the past

Farewell to a man who tried to connect indigenous and non-indigenous Australia

Memories of a friend and mentor

‘Breaking Bad’

The past caves away and dissolves behind us, leaving a few clues with which we try to reconstruct it. Hopeless task. History lives in the present. It is over 30 years since I walked across half of Australia with my dear camels and dog. If I concentrate, …

Tim Birkhead’s 'Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird'

A dining experience at Hobart’s Garagistes

‘In Treatment: Season Three’

Health retreats

The destruction of Burrup rock art

Antony Gormley’s 'Firmament IV'

Trekking in the Simpson

“‘So what of this notion of exile?’ ‘No,’ he says, ‘exile is too pretty a word. Can you reframe that?’ ‘Homelessness?’ ‘No, that's wrong - because I have a home.’ ‘Metaphorically speaking, I meant.’ ‘No. It's very …

In the age of noise

One of the great things about getting older is that all the anxieties you once had about death and decline (and some of us have had them daily since we first grasped the fact of mortality) are anxieties no longer. You are liberated from them because they …