
An Australia with no Google and Facebook? The bitter fight behind a drastic threat
In a major escalation, Google threatened on Friday to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government approved legislation that...

Bruce Pascoe wants to save the present with the Indigenous past
Bruce Pascoe stood near the ancient crops he has written about for years and discussed the day’s plans with a handful of...

Dad who took a bullet for his son reveals pain after Christchurch massacre
He often sees his three-year-old son thrashing at the world, screaming “I want to go home” and covering his eyes to avoid...

Bushfires signal the end of Australia as we know it
In a country where there has always been more space than people, where the land and wildlife are cherished like a Picasso,...

How Rupert Murdoch is influencing Australia’s bushfire debate
Deep in the burning forests south of Sydney this week, volunteer firefighters were clearing a track through the woods, hoping to hold...

First comes Snapchat, then the Bachelor and Spinster ball
They called it a wet T-shirt contest, but there were no winners or losers. Not many shirts, either. One man wore nothing...

While Australia burns, the world watches our credibility go up in smoke
When a mass shooting shattered Australia in 1996, the country banned automatic weapons. In its first years of independence, it enacted a...

Australia may well be the world’s most secretive democracy
One journalist is being investigated for reporting that several boats filled with asylum seekers recently tried to reach Australia from Sri Lanka....