When a regional bank markets itself as the "Community Bank" for decades, enlisting clubs and local groups to aid their PR, then abruptly abandons them after making a $515 million profit, IA's audience saw that as a slap in the face. Stunning September story by Dale Webster. read now...
Annija/PexelsWhen we think about new year’s resolutions, we often think about changing our habits or new setting goals around food, exercise and work. But why not take our reading seriously too? Social media reading platforms often ask us to set annual reading goals based on the number of books we
Today, the National Archives of Australia (NAA) released a key selection of records of the Australian Cabinet and its National Security Committee from 2005. The election in October 2004 had given the Howard government a commanding majority in the House of Representatives. From July 2005, it also obtained
Pomodoro Cat/Forest/Focus Friend/Focus To-DoIt’s hardly a revelation that we’re living in an era of distraction and smartphone addiction. Our phones interrupt us, hijack our attention, and tempt us into scrolling. Even when we aren’t interacting with them, their mere presence makes it difficult to concentrate. To address this, app developers
If they haven’t already, many Australians will soon head off for summer holidays. But behind every smooth check-in, cocktail or airport gate smile is one of more than an estimated 270 million tourism workers – about 8.2% of the global workforce. These workers – cleaners, cooks, waiters, porters and cabin
Brook Attakorn/GettyTV adventurer Bear Grylls has built a global reputation through his often unconventional and sometimes extreme survival feats to stay hydrated. He has squeezed moisture from elephant dung, sipped the contents of camel intestines, downed yak eyeball juice and, perhaps most famously, drank his own urine. If you’ve seen
The black tunnelweb spider. Samuel Purdie, CC BY-NCThe New Zealand velvet worm’s reign as Bug of the Year is coming to an end, with voting now open for the 2026 competition. This year, 21 nominees are vying for the crown in the competition’s fourth year. Nearly 100 bugs have so
Alison Pang/UnsplashWe all scream for ice-cream, especially as temperatures soar in the summer. Ancient civilisations had the same desire for a cold, sweet treat to cope with heat waves. There are plenty of contenders claiming credit for the first frozen desserts, from Italy and France in the 17th century to
In the early-1990s, I was looking for wisdom wherever it might be found. I spent time with Sifu Sing, the eccentric Daoist master at the Glebe Chinese Temple. I studied Jewish Kabbalah, I travelled with Black Allan Barker, the Warnman songman and one of the founders of Greenpeace Australia. I was not searching for one truth; I was searching for the ...
Q. Around this time of year a successful friend likes to rent an expensive ski chalet with cook and fill it with friends. Guests pay for nothing except air fares and tips and he invariably invites me and my partner to join the house party. Regrettably, one thing does mar our enjoyment. Without exception, he always puts my partner and me in the worst ...
Just before Christmas, NSW Premier Minns oversaw the passage of legislation constraining the right to protest in NSW, allowing the State government to outlaw a protest during a ‘terror designation’. The law does not go far enough yet may be struck down by the High Court for unduly burdening the implied right to political communication, found in the ...
Everyone has been declaring which words are too rude to utter in public. Shortly after breakfast, Radio 4 happily discussed by name the book by Cory Doctorow called Enshittification. But on Radio 4’s Feedback it proved impossible to say the word that shocked some listeners when they heard it on a dramatisation of a work by Doris Lessing on Rhodesia in ...
When a regional bank markets itself as the "Community Bank" for decades, enlisting clubs and local groups to aid their PR, then abruptly abandons them after making a $515 million profit, IA's audience saw that as a slap in the face. Stunning September story by Dale Webster. read now...
Annija/PexelsWhen we think about new year’s resolutions, we often think about changing our habits or new setting goals around food, exercise and work. But why not take our reading seriously too? Social media reading platforms often ask us to set annual reading goals based on the number of books we
Today, the National Archives of Australia (NAA) released a key selection of records of the Australian Cabinet and its National Security Committee from 2005. The election in October 2004 had given the Howard government a commanding majority in the House of Representatives. From July 2005, it also obtained
Pomodoro Cat/Forest/Focus Friend/Focus To-DoIt’s hardly a revelation that we’re living in an era of distraction and smartphone addiction. Our phones interrupt us, hijack our attention, and tempt us into scrolling. Even when we aren’t interacting with them, their mere presence makes it difficult to concentrate. To address this, app developers
If they haven’t already, many Australians will soon head off for summer holidays. But behind every smooth check-in, cocktail or airport gate smile is one of more than an estimated 270 million tourism workers – about 8.2% of the global workforce. These workers – cleaners, cooks, waiters, porters and cabin
Brook Attakorn/GettyTV adventurer Bear Grylls has built a global reputation through his often unconventional and sometimes extreme survival feats to stay hydrated. He has squeezed moisture from elephant dung, sipped the contents of camel intestines, downed yak eyeball juice and, perhaps most famously, drank his own urine. If you’ve seen
The black tunnelweb spider. Samuel Purdie, CC BY-NCThe New Zealand velvet worm’s reign as Bug of the Year is coming to an end, with voting now open for the 2026 competition. This year, 21 nominees are vying for the crown in the competition’s fourth year. Nearly 100 bugs have so
Alison Pang/UnsplashWe all scream for ice-cream, especially as temperatures soar in the summer. Ancient civilisations had the same desire for a cold, sweet treat to cope with heat waves. There are plenty of contenders claiming credit for the first frozen desserts, from Italy and France in the 17th century to
In the early-1990s, I was looking for wisdom wherever it might be found. I spent time with Sifu Sing, the eccentric Daoist master at the Glebe Chinese Temple. I studied Jewish Kabbalah, I travelled with Black Allan Barker, the Warnman songman and one of the founders of Greenpeace Australia. I was not searching for one truth; I was searching for the ...
Q. Around this time of year a successful friend likes to rent an expensive ski chalet with cook and fill it with friends. Guests pay for nothing except air fares and tips and he invariably invites me and my partner to join the house party. Regrettably, one thing does mar our enjoyment. Without exception, he always puts my partner and me in the worst ...
Just before Christmas, NSW Premier Minns oversaw the passage of legislation constraining the right to protest in NSW, allowing the State government to outlaw a protest during a ‘terror designation’. The law does not go far enough yet may be struck down by the High Court for unduly burdening the implied right to political communication, found in the ...
Everyone has been declaring which words are too rude to utter in public. Shortly after breakfast, Radio 4 happily discussed by name the book by Cory Doctorow called Enshittification. But on Radio 4’s Feedback it proved impossible to say the word that shocked some listeners when they heard it on a dramatisation of a work by Doris Lessing on Rhodesia in ...