From hieroglyphs to hashtags: the hidden history of punctuation
Punctuation marks have crept into the spaces between our words over thousands of years. But we rarely reflect on why they look the way they...
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20 of 379 episodesWhat’s behind Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan forming a new defence pact?
Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan have just signed a new NATO-like defence pact. The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement commits each country to...
Anna Henderson's Canberra
Are the PM and the Opposition Leader on the verge of agreeing on gambling reform? Plus where Labor is heading on the issue of immigration. A...
Blackbirding: the Australian slavery that nobody stopped
Decades after Britain abolished slavery in its colonies, an industry built on indentured labour from the Pacific quietly grew in Queensland....
Peter Garrrett on what the public think of AUKUS
The crowdfunded AUKUS public inquiry has so far had over 500 submissions, including from former ministers Gareth Evans, Linda Reynolds and C...
How wine made the modern world
Across 8,000 years, wine has shaped religion, power, trade and culture. Wine is more than a drink — it’s a story of civilisation itself. His...
Bernard Keane on Australia’s real opportunities in an unstable world
In his new book, Crikey’s political editor, Bernard Keane, turns his eye not just to where Australia has gone wrong, but to how we can best...
The last cats on Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island could soon achieve its goal of feral cat eradication, with approximately 150 cats left to catch. Feral cats have devastated...
Odyssey filming controversy on indigenous land in Moroccan region
The Odyssey blockbuster makes clear the colonisation and exploitation of Homer's time, but it was partly filmed in an indigenous area which...
Ian Dunt's UK: Can Count Binface beat Farage? And just what is 'Operation Fortress?'
Nigel Farage's call to adopt Australia’s 'stop the boats' policy has divided opinion, while new Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces the challe...
Butterfly collecting is no longer allowed
Butterfly populations have been declining since the 1960s. Butterfly collectors are also declining in number, because the practice is discou...
What's behind the push for Cyprus reunifcation?
Nearly ten years after they last collapsed, UN Secretary António Guterres has been in Cyprus, pressing for reunification talks to recommence...
Anna Henderson at Garma: Noel Pearson calls for Aboriginal affairs overhaul
Three years since the defeat of the Voice referendum, Noel Pearson returned to the Garma festival to deliver a blistering speech, which incl...
Encore: Oscar Wilde's grandson on the scandal that ruined him
The famous writer Oscar Wilde died alone in a French hotel in 1900. Since that time, so much has been written about the man - much of it rum...
Sarah Baartman: a life, a body, a battle over memory
Sarah Baartman’s body was used by European scientists to promote racist ideas that endured for generations. A new essay in Griffith Review r...
Who are Russia's Night Wolves?
The Night Wolves are a Kremlin-linked, far-right Russian motorcycle club that has served as a paramilitary proxy and propaganda tool for the...
The changes to spot in this year's Census survey
Census night is just two weeks away, and this year, Australians will have the opportunity to answer new questions on sexual orientation and...
Australia's dependence on the controversial weedkiller paraquat
Last month, after a nearly 30-year review, Australia's chemical regulator finally decided that the herbicide paraquat can continue to be use...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Netanyahu's Iran war pressure
LNL's US correspondent Bruce Shapiro looks at whether the latest pause in hostilities with Iran will lead to any outcome as the mid-terms ap...
100 years of Route 66 - is it worth celebrating?
It's 100 years since America's fabled highway 'Route 66' was commissioned - the road from Chicago to L.A celebrated in literature and song....