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

The fossil-fuel lobby could not have created the climate wars so easily without the preceding culture wars

New climate modelling suggests planetary crisis is coming much sooner than previously thought

After 300 inquiries into natural disasters and emergency management, insurers are taking the lead

The acoustic ecologists documenting our quieted world

Neighbours and friends rebuilding communities after the bushfires

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

An oral history of the Warwick & Joanne Capper ‘Penthouse’ shoot

Celebrating the contribution of an Australian media legend

Denialism, nihilism and the Murdoch propaganda machine

The idea that all opinions should be ventilated is misguided

Voices from the coronavirus outbreak

How the spread of the virus revealed our leaders to us

COVID-19 is turning Indigenous communities into a tinderbox

Voices from the coronavirus outbreak

On responding effectively to COVID-19 amid a deluge of conflicting information, and with a government we increasingly distrust

An infectious diseases physician on facing COVID-19

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

The real reasons keeping the Carmichael mine alive

Our nation’s economists have a price on your head, dead or alive

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

Bill Shorten wants to reframe how we tackle the budget

How neoliberalism redefined growth in the ugliest of ways – a Quarterly Essay extract

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

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

There is nothing learnt by erasing, or defacing, the past

A Botany Bay ferry would restore Cook’s landing site as a ‘meeting place’

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the author of ‘Stasiland’ reveals the ongoing power of the former East German regime, not just in politics and business but also in shaping perceptions of victimhood in unified Germany

The time for convenient denial of Australia’s brutal history is past

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

The resources industry says it’s finders keepers in the new space race

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

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

What do we really know about the growing presence of Google, Apple, Microsoft and more in the education system?

The debate about MUP has been remarkable for its intellectual poverty

Not even a drought can stop this NSW country town’s night of nights

The Australian surfers battling Chinese developers in Fiji

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

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

An incurious encounter takes flight

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

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

An unexpected stop prompts the question: Just what is the deal with the Dog on the Tuckerbox?

A 10-day camel trek through the South Australian outback. With your parents.

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

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

Meet those who speak for the dead to protect the living

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

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

The virus is the latest excuse for governments to slash and burn the individual rights of prisoners

George Pell’s supporters seek to canonise him, but he will never return to his former prominence

How the High Court’s “alien” ruling inches us closer to addressing the facts that matter

How far away is mass surveillance when Australian governments are linking CCTV cameras to facial-recognition technology and providing photo IDs to a nationwide system known as ‘the Capability’?

What would make an acknowledgement of country more welcome

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

Systemic racism, unconscious bias, and the death in custody of Tanya Day

The art project marking the boundaries of the Yarra Valley’s historic Aboriginal station

Indigenous leaders have made it clear that the Uluru statement is not negotiable

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

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

Indigenous rugby league players lead a silent revolt on the national anthem