What happens when a Northern Territory town reaches its mandated expiry date?

Scientists, anthropologists and artists gather to make sense of the Earth’s new epoch

The world’s oceans and all marine life are on the brink of total collapse

Warning: grubby work comes with grubby language

Greenhouse gases took 200 years to become a hot topic

Hobart artist Jane Bamford is helping a critically endangered fish to spawn

The idea that all opinions should be ventilated is misguided

How Fairfax became a business at journalism’s expense

After decades of influence, the media mogul isn’t so much a person as an epoch

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

Slate Plus’s podcast on Watergate urges patience on its audience

The Sudanese community leader and sports star’s improbable rise

After billions spent for little benefit, it’s time to look at the disease in a different way

What role can cannabis and psychedelics play in modern medicine?

Is the league running interference on the damage concussion can cause?

A controversial diagnosis is giving hope to sufferers of debilitating hearing issues

Our corrective services struggle to cope with the mental health requirements of inmates

Some actors intentionally suffer for their art

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

One man’s pursuit of a life without work

Why is the cost of banking in remote communities so high?

Sensible economics made simple – a Richard Denniss book extract

How a minor poet made a major historical error

The old Cave Hill quarry in Melbourne will be home to thousands

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

Underneath the bitumen in Hobart, history becomes art

An extract from the book marking the massacre’s 180th anniversary

One man’s campaign to have Gweagal artefacts returned to Australia

The Australian geneticist believes ageing is a disease we can treat

Some good news about online privacy has just popped up

People are dying to get into this forensic research facility

Climate scientists are working hard to keep the apocalypse relevant

The unexpected history of a radical technology

Australia’s chief scientist talks energy alternatives and trying to elevate the narrative

How the Ramsay Centre’s degree stopped before it started

On the hyperbolic reaction to ANU’s decision to part ways with the Ramsay Centre

How and why did the Chifley Library flood?

If student assessment is automated, what might it miss?

Do smart devices in classrooms help kids learn?

Private, public, state, selective … the trials of choosing a high school

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

Reflections on Japan

Reflections on Japan

A journey through West Papua

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

The language of menus

The last Aussie-themed pub in London

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

The prospect of 12 hours in Singapore airport gives rise to an existential crisis

On an island in Nicaragua, a rocky incline stands between Steve Hely and the Holy Grail of caffeine

Meet those who speak for the dead to protect the living

Annie Whitlocke is helping to break the silence around grief and dying

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

Why did a children’s book published three years ago suddenly go viral?

When families in the Northern Territory need help, removing children isn’t necessarily the answer

Male puberty’s difficult lessons

This must be how it feels to retire

The hopeful and the hapless flow through a magistrates’ court

Queensland’s first Muslim prison chaplain has first-hand experience of the system

What happened to missing Northern Territory personality Paddy Moriarty?

A day in the life of the Geelong Magistrates’ Court

The kid gloves come off at this symposium for those with skin in the game

This Clayton’s appointment has already come unstuck

The First on the Ladder arts project is turning things around for a rugby club and the local kids

An uncoordinated approach to treaty-making creates a quandary for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

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

Recognition must be at the heart of constitutional reform

A raw account of Aboriginal politics through the stories of ‘Tracker’ Tilmouth

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

The US and China’s struggle for power in Asia

On freedom and creativity, limitation and control

Feminist economics pioneer Marilyn Waring on care and the unfinished feminist revolution

How do we make sense of such a complex movement?

It’s a simple procedure, but having a vasectomy can raise questions of masculinity and equality

Jessa Crispin’s ‘Why I Am Not a Feminist’ demands a dismantling of mainstream feminism … and the system itself

The confused case for corporate gender equality

Meet the world’s fastest cuber

The level of inclusion on the Gold Coast has been a breakthrough

Sledging is unlikely to improve, on the field or in politics

A fundamental analysis of this year’s player lists

Five short pieces about one of tennis’s most misunderstood players

John Coates’ 27-year AOC tenure must end before real change can take place