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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.  

No one has ever shown me an abdominal scar in Melbourne in the hope I'll lend them my phone. 

Not many eureka turning points, in sport or anywhere else, are so clearly defined as this moment. 

Ever since I started working in book publishing 20 years ago, people have been telling me that it used to be better.