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Ignoring Medicare at election time may make short-term political sense for the major political parties, but the intractable structural problem with Australia’s health insurance requires serious attention.

I believe that I was born to be a general surgeon. 

The tale of how the music of Beethoven acquired a unique Australian voice, through a series of recordings on a revolutionary, Australian-made grand piano that upended tradition and shook up the music establishment.

Australia’s dirtiest habit is its addiction to coal. In Big Coal, Guy Pearse, David McKnight and Bob Burton ask if our dependence on it is a road to prosperity or a dead end. Are we hooked for life? And who is profiting from our addiction? Ian Dunlop's foreword to the book, extracted here, introduces the issues.

The author of a groundbreaking book into Indonesia’s jihadi movement reflects on his journey.

  Once, if a newspaper or magazine wanted to sell extra copies, it would put a banner headline 'What Do Women Want?' on the front page. These days, the attention-grabber is 'Can Women Have It All?'

Moby Dick was not entirely a fictional creation. This was one of the most suprising facts ...

Could a chance meeting in 1892 between Alfred Felton and the newly appointed director of the National Gallery of Victoria, a young Englishman called Bernard Hall, perhaps supply the answer to a question that has teased historians for the better part of a century? 

The individual contributions of the Brigidine Sisters are woven into the vibrant tapestry of a religious institute dealing with struggle, conflict and great change over 130 years. 

The proper expression of charity is crucially important to Australia's future wellbeing, and the history of social service organisation HammondCare surely demonstrates.

If Australia’s political scene since 2010 appears tumultuous, with Prime Minister Gillard clinging to power by the skin of her teeth in a hung Parliament, it is nothing compared to what happened in Canberra at the beginning of World War II.

Misunderstood history is forgotten history and forgotten history is, famously, ripe for repetition.