AOC’s public egg-freezing shouldn’t feel radical. But in today’s US, it does | Moira Donegan
The congresswoman’s decision is an assertion of women’s freedom and dignity at a time when our status is rapidly eroding “Don’t be weird about this,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive…
I protested against Pauline Hanson 28 years ago – now my teenager is doing the same thing | Philippa Chandler
In 1998, when I was in year 11, my friends and I wagged school to protest against the One Nation leader. Now my daughter has joined the school walkout Get…
Imelda Staunton: ‘Umbridge’s giggle needed to be short and sharp. So I just did a boom, boom’
The actor answers your questions on working with her dog, becoming a dame, Harry Potter, and making televisual history in The Singing Detective You and Bill Nighy were comrades in…
Mine by Adam Ouston review – novel told in a single sentence is a hallucinatory reading experience
Ouston’s second novel follows a poet who is trapped in an abandoned mine in Tasmania while searching for inspiration for his ‘last great work’ The ideal way to approach Mine,…
‘So much more respect for myself’: NZ ultrarunner Sophie Woods on smashing a 2,000km alpine run record
Sophie Woods speaks about the challenges she overcame while completing the notorious Via Alpina across eight European countries A couple of weeks into her record-breaking 2,000km run through Europe’s alps,…
‘Lauf’ and ‘minceur’: the words that made a 13-year-old from Melbourne a world Scrabble champion
Dineth Fernando – who moved to Australia with his family in February – says he just needed to ‘find the word and play – that’s all’ Follow our Australia news…
My friend’s negative self-talk is straining our relationship. What can I do? | Leading questions
Self-doubt doesn’t respond to evidence, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Rather than disputing it, perhaps you could engage in a different way Read more Leading questions A close friend of…
Victorian Liberals want a weekly red bin collection. Is it a wheelie good idea or a load of rubbish?
Fortnightly household waste collections are increasingly considered best practice – but the leader of the opposition argues they’re ‘disgusting’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our…
Massachusetts teen accused of killing mother and brother used ChatGPT
District attorney says Arjun Aravind, 17, used internet and AI to search for fantasy stories regarding killing of his family A Massachusetts teenager accused of killing his mother and younger…
‘Melancholic fantasy’: Wong escalates Labor rhetoric against Hanson, condemning ‘monoculture’ comment
Foreign affairs minister and first Asian-Australian to serve in federal cabinet to use Lowy Institute address to criticise politicians stoking racial divisions Follow our Australia news live blog for latest…