The little-known story of the thousands of children that resulted from the unions of Japanese women and Allied servicemen posted to Japan following WWII
The wrong sort of knowledgeIs higher education today a huge failure of imagination?
Odd jobsWhen migrants arrive in a new country, it often takes a while to find work that match their skills.
UNSW Press: Celebrating 50 yearsUNSW Press is celebrating 50 years.
Anzac mythologyLegend should not be mistaken for history.
Just another journalist's memoir?Broadcaster, writer and columnist Mike Carlton on Come the Revolution by Alex Mitchell at Gleebooks, Sydney
What would Rick Farley do?What would Rick Farley do?
The story of mathematicsThe story of mathematics
Mr JW Lewin, painter and naturalistJohn William Lewin is one of Australia’s most imaginative and engaging – but least known – colonial artists.
Playground dutyI approached the end of seventeen years teaching at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts with a mixture of emotions. I was excited about leaving Sydney for a new adventure in Melbourne. I knew I’d been at Newtown for long enough. Seventeen years in the one place is long enough for anybody. I even knew how I was going to leave – by taking a group of kids to perform in China and by doing a production of Blackrock.
Design commandmentsTony Seddon discusses the relative merits (or not) of using Comic Sans.
Lucky country?Did you know Australia ranks sixth among twenty-eight countries surveyed by the OECD in terms of average hours worked by full-timers? We’re meant to be the easygoing country, yet full-time workers in Australia work on average, per week, two hours longer than Germans, almost three more than the French and five more than most Nordic countries.