Australia has recorded its hottest spring on record, with temperatures averaging about 2.5C above pre-industrial levels. The ...

ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb earlier this year said that the federal government cannot “vacate the space” in regulating tech ...

Conventional wisdom favoured Australia, and so did the bookies. But if comfort was found in this, then so too was complacency ...

The Irish actor Richard Harris, perhaps most famous for playing Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator, once observed that the defining characteristic of successful politicians was “selective cowardice”. The ...

Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...

The Australian Curriculum requires Year 7 students to understand how an average smooths out a data set’s rocky terrain into a single flat horizon, an abstraction that fails to represent reality’s ...

The Department of Employment allowed the incorrect cancellation of welfare payments in the privatised employment services caseload because it failed to read properly new legislation when it began in ...

When Bill Shorten took over his sprawling portfolios in government, he saw public servants were “drowning”. “The Quality and Safeguards Commission and Services Australia, morale was in the toilet.

In Anthony Albanese’s political universe, personal relationships are everything. High on the list for Albanese is his bond with Peter V’landys, the chair of the Australian Rugby League Commission and ...

It’s been very hard to be a transgender 15-year-old in central Queensland. Luckily for me, my friends and fellow journalists at 6 News have been there every step of the way. In fact, two years ago, ...

Peter Steinberg was told that everyone goes through a Sylvia Plath phase. “Mine,” he says, “has lasted 30 years.” But after the publication on December 3 of The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath – the ...

I have tried several times to cook turkey for a Christmas-time celebration but, while stopping short of saying it isn’t possible to deliver a delicious one, I do wonder, why bother? Does a bird that ...