Article November 2014
In conversation

An interview with the author of A Forger's Progress, the celebrated new biography of Australia's first government architect, Francis Greenway.

Article November 2014
Science brings happy endings
Merlin Crossley

Science provides detail to the tapestry of life and offers another dimension to share and enjoy.

Article October 2014
Shark attack

From feared as a menace to championed by conservationists and surfers, the author of Sydney Beaches looks at our shifting attitudes to sharks.

Article October 2014
Visionary conceptions
Barry Pearce

Barry Pearce, emeritus curator at the Art Gallery of NSW, surveys two of his favourite paintings by Grace Cossington Smith.

Article September 2014
Jewels on Queen
Anne Schofield

Anne Schofield unlocks the cabinets in her exclusive Sydney shop in Queen Street, Woollahra and reveals the favourite pieces of jewellery she has bought, sold and collected over 50 years.

Article September 2014
Bragg Prize shortlist announced

Shortlist announced for the The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing, 2014

Article September 2014
Don't turn back the boats

Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong reject spin and panic to provide a straightforward and balanced account of Australia's asylum policies in light of international law.

Article September 2014
Australians in Asia

A million Australians went to Bali last year, following the millions of others who have made their way across Asia over the past century.

Article September 2014
The search for HMAS Sydney
Angus Houston

In November 1941 HMAS Sydney, the pride of Australia's wartime fleet, and its crew of 645 disappeared without a trace off the Western Australian coast.

Article September 2014
This Anzac business

Australia is spending more than any other nation on Great War commemoration, including those nations that were major combatants. Carolyn Holbrook, author of Anzac, The Unauthorised Biography, asks why.

Article July 2014
Was it history?

This compelling diary provides an intimate glimpse into the day-to-day workings of a foreign minister and canny politician, who happens to be a fine writer as well.

Article July 2014
Our ASIO files

Well-known Australians – mavericks, activists, movers and shakers – crack open their own ASIO files and read what the state's security apparatus said about them.