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FOR TEN YEARS I lived and worked in Canada. It's a funny feeling, coming home. After years of living...

MARDI GRAS IS a time of high emotion. When a Tasmanian contingent marched in the parade for the first...

TO WRITE ABOUT the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation at length, when it is an agency which shields itself from...

By Frank Moorhouse

THE WORLD HAS been watching for China's rise for a very long time. 'Let China sleep; when she wakes...

By Michael Wesley

WHEN NOEL PEARSON launched The Quiet Revolution, the book of Marcia Langton's 2012 ABC Boyer Lectures, he had the...

By Fiona Stanley

Selected for The Best Australian Science Writing 2014 AS SOON AS the midwife placed my newborn son on my belly,...

By Leah Kaminsky

Selected for The Best Australian Science Writing 2014AS A TEENAGER I read Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle and...

By Tom Griffiths

ON A FROSTY winter's afternoon in a coal town in the middle of the Hunter Valley, New South Wales,...

By Anna Rose

WAYS OF THINKING about women and men usually stall in a 'maze of false dichotomies', poet Adrienne Rich said...

By Chris Wallace

IT WAS SURPRISINGLY sunny the Sunday morning in October when we bumped into the PM. On a broken suburban...

By Mary Delahunty

GERMAINE GREER HAD been responding to a questioner on the ABC's Q&A program (March 19, 2012), who asked what...

By Jane R Goodall

I TYPE IN 'Aceh' and find a slew of photos depicting the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. Buried among...

By Madelaine Dickie