Sam Neill – a life in pictures
The New Zealand actor who appeared in more than 150 roles including memorable turns in Jurassic Park films, Peaky Blinders and The Piano, has died aged 78 Sam Neill’s 20…
We have survived! Forty years of Aboriginal protest posters – in pictures
Wiradjuri elder Ray Jackson was a prominent activist in Australia. He was the founding secretary of the New South Wales Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee in 1987 and a…
Hughie Vaughan: the king of gravity-defying tricks pushing surfing to new heights | Kieran Pender
The young Australian finds success in the wave pool with once unimaginable aerial moves – but his future lies in the ocean It was the surfing trick that broke the…
How is Pauline Hanson’s UK trip going down with the locals? | Fiona Katauskas
It’s sparking some interesting conversations See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading…
Can Labor save us from the risks of AI? – podcast
The AI revolution is here, and with it a fear that soon it will replace many of us in the workplace. The Australian government is grappling with how to deal…
Are middle-aged women really invisible? I see them everywhere – and not just in the mirror | Emma Beddington
Gillian Anderson, Rose Byrne, Melinda Gates: there’s no getting away from these passionate and prominent figures. Even I feel more exposed than I’d like to be Am I, a middle-aged…
Nigel Farage is just one strand in the tangle of rightwing politicians and crypto investors | John Harris
These financiers want to remodel the UK into a form that suits them – one that could threaten to erode the barriers between crime and business This coming Tuesday, the…
Where are the Greens? – podcast
In the year since the federal election, Pauline Hanson with her brand of rightwing populism has successfully tapped into discontent, surging in the polls at the expense of the Coalition…
One Nation’s rise puts the next election in ‘unknown territory’ – but does Pauline Hanson really have a path to government?
Data shows the rightwing party faces an obstacle in the form of urban seats – and the effect of preference flows is harder to predict Follow our Australia news live…
Mushroom trip: a mycologist’s tour of the Tarkine
On a three-day fungi workshop in Australia’s largest cool temperate rainforest, Alexis Buxton-Collins unearths an unexpected appreciation for the third kingdom of life Revered as one of Australia’s last true…