Article July 2012
Children of the Occupation

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

Article June 2012
The wrong sort of knowledge

Is higher education today a huge failure of imagination? 

Article May 2012
Odd jobs

When migrants arrive in a new country,  it often takes a while to find work that match their skills.

Article May 2012
UNSW Press: Celebrating 50 years
Kathy Bail

UNSW Press is celebrating 50 years.

Article April 2012
Anzac mythology

Legend should not be mistaken for history.

Article April 2012
Just another journalist's memoir?
Mike Carlton

Broadcaster, writer and columnist Mike Carlton on Come the Revolution by Alex Mitchell at Gleebooks, Sydney

Article April 2012
What would Rick Farley do?

What would Rick Farley do?

Article April 2012
The story of mathematics
Dana Mackenzie

The story of mathematics

Article March 2012
Mr JW Lewin, painter and naturalist
Richard Neville

John William Lewin is one of Australia’s most imaginative and engaging – but least known – colonial artists. 

Article March 2012
Playground duty

I 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. 

Article March 2012
Design commandments
Tony Seddon

Tony Seddon discusses the relative merits (or not) of using Comic Sans.   

Article February 2012
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.