From fires to floods, Australia is failing our disaster survivors

The floods and the advent of the climate emergency

Watching the Brisbane River swell, once more, to a destructive force

How oil-palm plantations have uprooted the lives and dreams of a Papuan community

The spectacle of Uluru after a storm, and what it might symbolise

Adapting our households to lock in climate-friendly behaviour is easier than you might think

If there was anything more bizarre than Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, it was the plethora of absurd hot takes that followed

The shock jock is finally brought down by lacklustre ratings

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope

An open letter to Jon Faine: esteemed commentator, vintage car lover and schadenfreude enthusiast

What is the cost of persistently reporting one’s observations?

When should allegations against senior politicians be published?

Alcoholics Anonymous in lockdown and out

The Morrison government’s negligence in aged care is having devastating effects

Why do some insist women should forgo pain relief in childbirth?

Clinical trials in Perth will study the use of MDMA to treat PTSD and addiction

A personal experience of how psychedelics are transforming mental health therapies

The Foo Fighters’ AIDS denialism should be on the record

The repressive regulation of unions has decimated employee bargaining power, leaving wages going nowhere

Financial institutions, investment funds and governments are being held to account over the costs of climate change

The Morrison government is yet to fully realise that sidelining the arts hurts the economy

We need to talk about the economy

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

So what is MMT and why should you care?

Saving Canowindra’s ancient fish fossils

Mark McKenna explores Australia’s history of violence, dispossession and deception through one tragic incident

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

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

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

Since the first human forayed beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, politics has never left space

Gravitational waves and the secrets of the universe

Citizen science is not only helping echidna conservation, but changing how we think about evolution

The strange paths taken by the mind when overwhelmed by fear

A green hydrogen project in South Australia aims to demonstrate zero-emission energy production

A revived interest in alien visitation only underscores how little we know about the universe

Culture wars, climate wars and the bureaucratisation of writing have eroded the public sphere

The descent of creative arts at Australia’s universities

Casualisation and relentless cost-cutting have destroyed the credibility of Australian universities

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

Why have Australia–China relations deteriorated so comprehensively, and what can Australia do to restore them?

On Australia’s relations with China

The work of combatting Sinophobia must be combined with a critique of Australian foreign policies

On the China Dream and the guiding ideology of Xi Jinping

New revelations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan

The Australian surfers battling Chinese developers in Fiji

Joost Bakker’s vision for sustainable housing is taking root

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

A solo road trip back to harsh realities

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

How piecemeal relationship and sexuality education is failing our schoolchildren

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

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

A British backpacker’s win in the High Court has inadvertently left contractors with fewer employment protections

The end of Risdon Prison’s Spartan Debating Club, which offered inmates skills for non-violent conflict

Does the legal system put people through unnecessary trauma?

Faced with the choice between a gruelling court process or nothing, victim-survivors are often coming away more bruised from the experience than they were beforehand

Why the Bondi Memorial honouring victims of Sydney’s LGBTIQ hate-crime epidemic matters for victims and their families

Australia’s workplace laws must better accommodate the reproductive body

The jailing of Mornington Island Art’s chief executive for dishonest dealing has shone a light on ethics and colonialism in the Indigenous art world

The decades-long protest is a symbol of Aboriginal sovereignty, which has been vigorously resisted by the Australian government

The largest new fossil-fuel project in Australia threatens the world’s most significant rock art

Revisiting trauma is not the road to justice for Aboriginal people

Rock-climbers at Arapiles/Dyurrite say the parks department has misled traditional owners over climb closures

Fortescue Metals Group has a history of “unconscionable” settlements with Indigenous custodians

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

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’

What shifting notions of sex and gender mean for affirmative action in the workplace

A senator’s fight against Australia’s racism and sexism

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

Tim Paine’s sexting scandal reveals more about institutional failures than personal ones

The I-Kiribati Olympic sprinter hoping to draw attention to his nation’s climate catastrophe

Home truths from the Euro 2020 tournament

Once a male-heavy sport contested by dynastic families, competitive woodchopping is increasingly attracting strong women

After an extraordinary week in football, fans of all stripes have something to celebrate

Deathmatch Downunder is making wrestling progressive, accessible and inclusive

When it came to setting guidelines for clinical treatment during the pandemic, Australia got it right

Premier Steven Marshall claimed South Australia was “COVID-ready” when the state opened borders just as Omicron was emerging, but it now faces the same issues as the eastern states

The federal government’s handling of the pandemic has been the worst public policy screw-up in Australian history

The pandemic has led to a surge in people needing help putting food on the table

Remembering some of Sydney’s well-known streetfolk

Lacking serious debate on the next stage of the pandemic, Australia is ill-prepared