The success of Indi MP Helen Haines points to more non-aligned voices in parliament It’s mid afternoon on a humid, rain-punctuated day in early November when Dr Helen Haines swings her bright orange ...

In the library of Inglewood State School - a three-hour, sleep-inducing drive west from Brisbane - Jim Lyons discusses Scarlett Johansson with students from years seven and eight. He shows them a ...

How creating sculpture for animals is transforming wildlife conservation and the art world At the end of winter, I came across a little penguin on our local beach. It was the first penguin I had seen ...

It was the place where Manning first began intuiting social class, a theme that would obsessively dominate his history of ...

Almost a century later, Scandinavian timber companies began buying up vast parcels of Portuguese land to grow Eucalyptus globulus, or blue gums, to pulp for paper. The vast plantations crippled ...

“A funny thing happened in Australia,” Frank Sinatra told a New York audience. “I made a mistake and got off the plane.” The plane in question – the private jet of one of Sinatra’s Las Vegas casino ...

A Botany Bay ferry would restore Cook’s landing site as a ‘meeting place’ There is only one bus to the southern Sydney suburb of Kurnell between 8am and 4pm on a Sunday. Unless you own a car or plan a ...

Congratulations on the latest issue of the Monthly. Credit where credit is due. Five female by-lines on the cover. Fifty-fifty contributors. Women writing intelligently and critically on politics, sex ...

The untold Aboriginal history of the R.M. Williams boot The young man looks straight ahead, both eyes fixed on the camera even as his hands feed a piece of leather through the sewing machine. Daylight ...

The mummies in ads and the fashion pages and celebrity magazines are really starting to get to me. There are hundreds of them on TV selling Panadol or "health" bars, and they all seem to be snapping ...