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THE FIRST FOUR years of the 21st century have produced enough strange and unsettling developments to haunt a far...

IS AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE ignoring organic-style farming?Southeastern Australia has been gripped by one of the worst drought on record, yet...

By Anna Salleh

SIMONE WEIL SAID in her book The Need for Roots (Routledge and Paul, 1952) that truth is "a need...

By Raimond Gaita

I'TS A MUNDANE household task: peel the shopping list off the fridge and take it to the shops. But...

By Paul Mitchell

‘WHO CARES? I mean, who the fuck cares?' This is more exclamation than question. Patrice Newell is exhausted. Exhausted and angry....

By Sarah Kanowski

IT IS CHILLY in Florence when we get off the fast train up from Rome. The calories from the...

LIKE A HINDU goddess, the scrawny old cook seems to have multiple arms. In no time flat, she's fried...

By Carolijn Visser

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

By Julianne Schultz

AT THE DELICATESSEN counter of my local Woolworths supermarket – which promotes itself as ‘the fresh food people' –...

THE FIRST TIME I visited the Matthew Talbot Hostel, in the inner-Sydney suburb of Woolloomooloo, was Christmas 2005. My...

By Rebecca Huntley

BETWEEN THE SUPER – and the farmers' markets is the middle ground – on which growers too small to...

By Elaine Reeves

TASMANIA'S LABOR PREMIER, David Bartlett, was sensitive to the critical attention his state has long attracted on the mainland...

By Natasha Cica