When a government vacates a policy field, by neglect or design, something fills the void. Early philosophers expressed this as “nature abhors a vacuum”. Denser material fills the space. Enter Pauline ...

John Anderson’s farm, Newstead, is located about 150km west of Tamworth in NSW. His grandfather purchased 30,000 acres ...

Some places have more history than is good for them.

Islamic State propaganda has always been quite explicit when it comes to outlining the role of women and their part in ...

Angus Taylor’s shadow cabinet represents a rarity in modern political leadership. It is as close to a meritocratic outcome as you could get. This was possible only because of the margin that handed ...

These are not conventional sketches but fragments of a 28-year-old swimming instructor’s life. Her family says she spent more than 30 days in solitary confinement in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard ...

No one had told me that obliteration was the essence of this condition, bereavement. But looking back, it had been embedded ...

So come on then, Europe. Show us what you’re made of. From Davos to Munich and across the capitals of the old continent, the ...

The childhood memory may be unreliable but it is vivid: a chalk inscrip­tion of a single word slashed on the pavement in ...

It is a legend, possibly a true one, that right-wing Labor Party politician Fred Daly introduced a newly elected colleague to the harsh reality of democratic politics. When the newcomer visited the ...

For those wanting help in selecting the right things to plant (particularly trees), the free online plant selection tool Which Plant Where is a unique resource. It’s the culmination of five years of ...

Brad Thomas likes the quiet life, and there are few places quieter than the ghost town of Gwalia in Western Australia’s Goldfields, where he’s lived for 11 years. In this image, winner of the ...