Susan is seventy-two years old and comes to see me five weeks after abdominal surgery for a medical review. ‘I’m feeling great and am wondering when I can get back to things with my husband.’ I’ve ...

Artificial intelligence is hailed as the future of everything, but its own champions may be sowing the seeds of collapse.

In 1986, Australia reached a turning point in higher education. Campuses that had long been dominated by young men were beginning to see women arrive in larger numbers, the result of decades of ...

In the wild scrublands of the sprawling state of Maharashtra in western India, a leopard was chasing a dog, which was running for its life, when they both fell into an uncovered dry well. The well was ...

Many writers and intellectuals have lamented and criticised the closure of Meanjin. And rightly so. The larger questions still bear reflection. Why did Meanjin, and so its closure, matter? And more ...

The longer a discussion on the Internet goes on, the likelihood of someone being called a Nazi increases. This “Godwin’s Law” was first articulated in 1990 by the lawyer and Internet pioneer Mike ...

Bishop Patrick Power never worried about being popular. As a result, he became enormously loved and respected. When the auxiliary bishop of Canberra/Goulburn was named as the ACT citizen of the year ...

We need no reminding of the depth of the division that exists in our Australian community. It's there every time we go online, turn on the TV, open the newspaper. Our politics is focused on ...