“Scarborough Fair” is what Ellen Stekert calls a “go around song,” one that is passed from singer to singer, down centuries, ...

If citizens don’t have confidence in their public services, at least on balance, they will be more reluctant to pay taxes and the extent and quality of services will spiral downwards. It’s worth ...

Does anyone remember “American carnage”? In his 2017 inaugural address Donald Trump portrayed a collapsing society, emphasising in particular the “crime and gangs and drugs” destroying America’s ...

In 1949, the year the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation was established, the Canberra University College was considering the appointment of Melbourne historian Charles Manning Hope Clark ...

When Albanese’s eviction legislation passed in June 2023, Russia asked the High Court to put the repossession on hold until it could rule on the legislation’s validity. Justice Jayne Jagot rejected ...

The importance of the clitoris to women’s sexual pleasure is a lesson that still has to be taught. Meanwhile, the “vaginal orgasm” that Freud invented lives on as the G-spot, a reportedly erogenous ...

In my day job, I run a lab dedicated to research and development in AI for law enforcement and community safety. We’re preoccupied with building what’s euphemistically described as “technology for ...

A particularly important contributor to increasing wealth inequality across age groups has been the decline in home ownership rates among younger households. Australia’s home ownership rate declined ...

This is not, as Rodgers always announced at the start of his programs, a beautiful day in the neighbourhood. It’s a horrible, no good, very bad day, and those days keep on coming. It’s not just what ...