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Betty Churcher, the first and only female director of the National Gallery of Australia, has died. Throughout her extraordinary career as an arts administrator, the art always came first.
Gay men earn less than heterosexual men, but lesbians earn more than straight women. The reasons may surprise you.
Why does an atheist literary scholar need to know about the Bible? It’s a text with innumerable interpretative possibilities that allows readers to connect ‘the apparently unconnectable’.
The demand for government-funded legal services is large and growing. Simply “not cutting” these services does the community a grave disservice.
Efforts to get fathers more involved in raising their kids often entail changing leave provisions, but research shows that’s not helping dads get more involved in caring for their children.
When accidents happen we need to look at the real cause of why things went wrong instead of just looking for someone to blame.
Changing the GST in isolation would create serious problems, but increasing it alongside other reforms could have a major upside.
Are you one of those people who can smell when the rain is coming? Ever wondered then what you’re actually smelling?
Saudi Arabia’s incursion into Yemen is the latest manifestation of a long-standing struggle between it and Iran over statist issues of conflicting national interest, security and regional hegemony.
AMC’s zombie hit The Walking Dead has garnered a huge global audience. As the finale of the series’ fifth season screens, we should pay attention not to the zombies – but to the survivors.
Some people balk at the cost of private insurance – especially the relatively young and healthy – because they don’t see the value of it when they are already covered under Medicare.
When it comes to producing a comprehensive, far-reaching policy regime – a coherent vision for Australia’s society and economy and how to turn it into reality – the government is only getting started.
By assuming that prior service on a board is the prerequisite to success, companies are overlooking a large pool of talented women.
Consumers will always make ‘irrational’ financial decisions, but behavioural economics could help regulators improve their education role.
South Korean students consistently top the league tables - leading Western leaders to look to Asia to fix our education systems. But South Korean students pay in other ways, meaning we shouldn’t be so quick to try to replicate their system.
A new investigation of satellite records reveals that the Earth is getting greener, despite ongoing deforestation in Indonesia and South America.
Avoiding the metadata retention laws and sending messages entirely privately is harder than it might seem.
Australians love Easter but it seems we love Easter eggs more, spending more than A$185 million on chocolate over the holiday break.
The new legislation forcing telcos and internet companies to store your metadata for two years creates a new set of secuirty risks.
There is a non-binding precedent in Victoria that allows judges to consider the victim’s sexual experience when passing sentence on a sex offender – but only when the “victim is a prostitute”.
A new centre in Indonesia is dedicated to studying the curious and ancient Coelacanth.
Sacked Queensland Labor MP Billy Gordon has a legal right to remain in parliament and vote, issue-by-issue, as an independent.
Experts have welcomed another wave of discussion on tax reform, and this time everything’s on the table.
The government says it has met all of the recommendations for safeguarding the Great Barrier Reef. But a close reading of the dozens of UN recommendations shows that many have been only partly fulfilled.