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MY DAD WOKE me early to go down town and buy streamers. It was 1989 and our team was...

@goddess: You tweeted the words sink and lower. You sound depressed@iceBorg: Goddess, I’m falling, tweeting free, from a public...

By Gay Lynch

EVA HAD LOVED the first slap of cold water on her face when she dived into the pool, then...

By Jessica White

Winner of the 2015 Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing PrizeABOUT EIGHTEEN MONTHS ago, I started to spend time walking...

By Nick Gadd

NORWEGIANS WORK ONE HUNDRED days less per year than Australians. The whole country savours its precious few months of...

By Libby Robin

IN THE WESTERN tradition, faith and reason stand at opposing poles. My social-scientific training was deeply framed by this...

By Brendan Gleeson

MANY IN THE social sciences have given up on trying to imagine the future. Between the options of conceiving...

By Tim Flannery

TWO POWERFUL AND contradictory images come to mind when I’m asked to reflect on my experience of attending the...

By John Wiseman

IN JANUARY 1961, nobody on earth symbolised the future like John F Kennedy. At his inauguration the youthful president...

By Antony Funnell

IN THE SOUL of Man under Socialism (1891), Oscar Wilde wrote, ‘A map of the world that does not...

By Richard King

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHERS LIKE me probe the mechanistic basis of health and disease. In a long career working at the...

By Peter Doherty

SINCE MY LATE teens, I’ve had a penchant for Russian literature. It started with Dostoevsky. It may have been...

By Andy Merrifield