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IN 1853 GEORGES-Eugène Haussmann was given what a lesser man would have considered an impossible task – the transformation...

By Julianne Schultz

"I NEVER THOUGHT that globalisation would mean that I would lose my kids," the well-travelled woman across the lunch...

By Julianne Schultz

IN THE FIRST of 2007, when the prospect of a change of government was beginning to be taken seriously...

By Julianne Schultz

MID-TOWN MANHATTAN, about where the Rockefeller Plaza spills on to Fifth Avenue, is arguably where a Venn diagram of...

By Julianne Schultz

NEARLY TWO HUNDRED and fifty years ago Dr Samuel Johnson – the essayist, critic, poet and lexicographer – became...

By Julianne Schultz

IT WAS ALWAYS a thrill to find an email from the prospective president of the free world jumping out...

By Julianne Schultz

WHEN THOUSANDS OF unemployed miners, steel, clothing and textile workers, their friends, families and organisers pushed through the glass...

By Julianne Schultz

WHEN HE APPEARED to accept his fourth Miles Franklin award in the elegant surrounds of the Mitchell Library, Tim...

By Julianne Schultz

ONCE UPON A time in a far-off land, with cobblestone streets and gingerbread buildings, a handsome prince marries a...

By Julianne Schultz

WHEN I WAS growing up, in the 1960s, the food we ate and its supply was tangible – literally...

By Julianne Schultz

NAGGING CURIOSITY ABOUT where the rivers originated lured Australia's great European explorers beyond the Great Dividing Range. Equipped with...

By Julianne Schultz

THERE ARE RELATIVELY few places where a people from a diverse, secular society can come together to find common...

By Julianne Schultz