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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. 

The multi-billion dollar coal seam gas industry has arrived on the outskirts of Australia’s biggest city and everyone’s ducking for cover. 

  The most erotic thing a man can do for a woman is … the dishes.

You can be devoted to Australia and wish to see it do well, without beating your breast or telling others to ‘Love it or leave it’. 

Aussie English is alive and well and as fit as a Mallee bull.

On 5 July 1955, an eighteen-year-old art student named William (Bill) Wright was walking past the old women’s cell block of Darlinghurst Gaol eating a Sargents meat pie covered in tomato sauce. 

There has never been a better time to be a consumer of scientific information. Thanks to the internet, we have an embarrassment of riches.

The business world is the stage for our ambition, envy, disappointment and achievement. 

Scientists discover five horseshoe bats in one

  The outcry over a flurry of misogynistic comments in the last few weeks – from shock jock Alan Jones accusing women of wrecking the joint to former political adviser Graham Morris describing Leigh Sales as a ‘cow’ – is only surprising for one reason.