The late Roald Dahl, who was born 100 years ago this month, had many qualities that made him an outstanding children’s writer, including an eccentric sort of humour, an acute sense of fairness and a ...

Every few weeks, unusual packages arrive by post at the University of Adelaide. Sent by dutiful citizen scientists across Australia, they contain biological material that has shed light on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the days of bipartisan shock that followed the 2019 federal election, when the Coalition and Labor were asking themselves the same, simple question – what the hell just happened? – a senior member ...

GetUp! (how people detest that little exclamation mark) grew slowly at first. From its initial campaign – warning Coalition senators that ordinary Australians would hold them to account after the ...

In December 1928, settling into village life on Manus Island, the anthropologist Margaret Mead sent a gleeful letter home to the United States via the boat that visited every three weeks. She was ...

Antoni Jach is the author of three novels. His recent artist’s book is Faded World: Fragments from the Description de l’Egypte.