Could the legacy of Australia’s worst bushfires on record be the end of native logging?

A NSW community questions whether last summer’s catastrophic bushfire was inevitable

How climate politics is fracturing Australia’s party system

Juukan Gorge is gone, but will we act in time to save Warragamba Dam?

Outbreaks like COVID-19 are caused by the same fundamental problems as climate change, but the solutions may also be connected

Environmental protection laws do not conserve Australia’s wildlife – and government inaction means they never will

Despite a widely supported petition, the government is too scared to take on the Murdoch empire

The government is your servant, not your friend

How Google and Facebook created the opportunity for NewsCorp’s latest coup attempt

News Corp’s COVID coverage has been a health risk of its own

Julian Assange’s extradition trial continues as an attack on journalism

The imperatives of commercial media mean that the bushfire crisis is unlikely to be a tipping point for denialism

Case studies of systemic failure in Victoria’s fight against coronavirus

What chronic illness can teach us about the limits of the healthcare system during a global crisis

Thirty years on from the excoriating royal commission, two practitioners of deep sleep therapy seek redemption in a defamation case that again blames Scientologists for their downfall

The ‘Ruby Princess’ inquiry finds plenty of blame to go around

Traditionally offering non-medical support to women during pregnancy, doulas are now providing care during abortions

The system breakdowns onboard and onshore that led to the docking of the coronavirus cruise ship

What if Frydenberg had actually created a budget for the times?

So what is MMT and why should you care?

Inside the modern debt-collection industry

The anthropologist’s ideas about finance are just as relevant as ever

The parallel rise of the coal baron and Prime Minister Narendra Modi

The real reasons keeping the Carmichael mine alive

Fifty years after ‘A New Britannia’, whatever happened to the revolution?

Humphrey McQueen’s influential book questioned the nation-building myths of the time

Melbourne in the time of pandemic

The pioneer of publishing and women’s rights has been unjustly overshadowed by regard for her famous son, Henry

The Palace Letters confirm the Crown’s neutrality is irrevocably compromised

On Kerr, the Palace Letters and the Crown’s silence

The myth of the ‘overview effect’, and how it serves space industry entrepreneurs

Does the detection of phosphine gas point to life among Venus’s clouds?

Crowds cheer on the destructive prowess of Pot Head and Wanda at the Robowars National Championship

We know surprisingly little about how our brains orchestrate our sex lives

The Australian woman on the shortlist to bid farewell to Earth forever

Reflecting on the Apollo 11 mission as Mars beckons

Universities are in trouble, and the government isn’t helping

If Footscray Primary’s Vietnamese program ends, what else is lost?

When it comes to China’s influence, Australian universities have been burying their heads in the sand for too long

The Coalition’s political agenda is a gross infringement on academic freedom

University fees have never functioned as a price signal in the way the government is anticipating

Despite the ideological thrust of Dan Tehan’s funding proposals, universities might now have an incentive to boost humanities enrolments

The Australian surfers battling Chinese developers in Fiji

Three years on, how are the Filipino children of Australian sex tourists faring?

Shipped-in Maseratis and single-use venues are a world away from real life in Port Moresby

The co-founder of GetUp! might be the most influential Australian in the world

The children left behind by Australian sex tourists in the Philippines

For the city-state’s academics, freedom of speech is a sensitive subject

MasterChef conceals and reveals Australian racism

The end of the cow is near as animal-free milk is likely to decimate the traditional dairy industry within the decade, and plant-based meat is set to upend the beef market

Sprout farmer Bruce Adams has created one of Australia’s more unlikely oversized highway attractions

Dissecting dietary fads and habits

Join the queue for Tasmania’s most sought-after Japanese

Australia’s food and wine industry is the next big thing in China

A visit to Ürümqi’s quieted streets and contested museums

When international ports close, what happens to those at sea?

How Port Douglas, the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree, has been quieted by lockdown

A former Russian athlete’s plan for Australia’s first commercial sub

A new four-day tour in Tasmania is owned and guided by Aboriginal people

A new four-day tour in Tasmania is owned and guided by Aboriginal people

Keeping mum about the Easter Bunny

Having survived Afghanistan as a counterintelligence officer, a traumatised vet and his family lost their farm in the Adelaide Hills bushfires

The security business partnering with domestic violence services to help women and children escape abuse

Dwindling stocks of Australian sperm have fertility clinics looking overseas and couples looking online

As more of our lives are lived online, more people aren’t coping

For Megan Donnell’s family, the DNA-altering revolution cannot come soon enough

The allegations of Australian war crimes have shattered the national digger mythology

What are the priorities of policing protests under lockdown?

‘Four Corners’ tells just one part of the story of mental health in Australia

A primary school–aged child in court surely represents the ultimate failure of society, yet Australia won’t raise the age of criminal responsibility

Crime, punishment and indemnities in western Sydney’s gang wars

George Dickson’s minor act of rebellion, and the state’s major overreach

The life of a great Australian songwriter

Allowing the Aboriginal flag to be used freely is an important step towards self-determination

What would make an acknowledgement of country more welcome

COVID-19 is turning Indigenous communities into a tinderbox

The brazen art movement born out of the troubled legacies of substance abuse and dispossession

Very little has been learnt from the death in custody on Palm Island

Was ‘Australia’s James Bond’ working for the KGB? Or ASIO? Or both?

The risk posed by the global weapons complex is much worse than you know

The third volume in ASIO’s official history confirms infiltration by Soviet intelligence

The dispute over the South China Sea will come to affect more than just China’s near neighbours

John Blaxland’s ‘The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO 1963–1975’

Australia blurs the lines with Timor-Leste

An opportunity for rethinking the position of women in contemporary art

Helping trans and non-binary gendered people define their vocal identity

The Queensland Labor MP on the hustings and the hating

Work as a stripper wasn’t quite what this newcomer imagined

On freedom and creativity, limitation and control

Heti’s novel asks if a woman should have a child; Rose’s nonfiction considers how society treats her if she does

How decades after Murdoch and Packer destroyed the popular appeal of a game created for the masses, Peter V’landys is putting rugby league back on top

Athlete Claire Keefer trains for a Paralympics now postponed

Games may be cancelled, but the names play on

The America’s Cup winged keel and the transformation of a nation

How evangelical footballer Israel Folau lit a fire under the culture wars

Two documentaries consider how racism ended the AFL star’s career

In the face of the pandemic, Scott Morrison has failed to adjust his thinking, and wants to return to the way things used to be

Might challenges to neoliberal orthodoxies emerge from the pandemic, as challenges to Christian faith did after the Black Death?

Coronavirus lockdown is undoing gains for women in employment, shared domestic labour and protection from family violence

Voices from the coronavirus outbreak