World globes, empire, and the making of the world
A world globe looks like a simple object, but look closely and you can see centuries of discovery, error, ambition and empire. The blank spa...
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Kim Sajet, the Smithsonian director targeted by Trump
In May 2025, US President Donald Trump announced that he'd fired Kim Sajet, then Director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, de...
Ian Dunt's UK: Miliband's Israel sanctions, and Farage recieves record donations
The UK's new Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has announced new sanctions on Israeli West Bank settlements, prompting a furious response from I...
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on what Netanyahu knew before October 7
What did Benjamin Netanyahu know about the threat from Hamas before October 7? A new Haaretz investigation looks at warnings that reached th...
The hidden meanings in wine labels
For a long time walking into a bottle shop to buy wine felt like walking into an exclusive club. Wine labels were printed on thick, expensiv...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Hanson offends again, migration debate heats up
The fall out from One Nation's cartoon suggesting Liberal MP Andrew Hastie was a traitor continues, and David Marr asks Anna Henderson why t...
The secret dinners behind Cold War journalism
Before 24-hour news, Washington’s most powerful journalists got their scoops over dinner — with generals, senators and senior officials. The...
How Big Tobacco still wields influence in Australia
As Australia grapples with a surging illicit tobacco trade, the Coalition and One Nation have called for a substantial cut to Australia's ta...
Rivers are Europe's lifeblood. Now they're dying
Europe is a land of legendary rivers. For centuries, they've fed cities, transported great armies and powered modern industry. But this summ...
How can you trust news generated by AI?
Since AI started being used by journalists in newsrooms around the world, there have been a number of high-profile publications that have ma...
Why America wants its Greenland airbase back
During the Cold War, the US had 17 military bases across Greenland. Most were eventually abandoned, but now Washington wants to get its hand...
Stop the chop: the fight for Adelaide's parklands
Nearly a thousand trees are being cut down in Adelaide's heritage listed parklands to make way for a re-developed golf course and the MotoGP...
Giorgia Meloni's four years in power
Four years on, Giorgia Meloni has done what few Italian leaders manage: stay in power. But has her right-wing revolution really materialised...
Humboldt - the philosopher who started the ecology movement
The idea that everything in nature is interconnected comes largely from the German philosopher, geographer, naturalist and explorer, Alexand...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Falling house prices
Anna Henderson discusses the political impact on the government of falling house prices, whether One Nation's superannuation policy is a vot...
Unearthing a dark past - the campsites of Queensland's Native Mounted Police
For 80 years (1848-1928), the Queensland Native Mounted Police operated as a paramilitary force on Australia's frontier, with Aboriginal tro...
Why we're not all eating lab-grown meat
The quest to create enjoyable, successful lab-grown meat has been pursued over the past decade or two, by entrepreneurs around the globe who...
'Dynamite Doug' - the man who looted Cambodia's treasures
Amidst the chaos of the Khmer Rouge genocide and Cambodia’s civil war, a new crime wave emerged. Sacred temples across Cambodia were looted...
The real-life horrors of corporate crimes
Rogue corporations commit terrible harms. They kill, addict and ruin on a huge scale - and often get away with it. A new book 'Corporate har...
Lesbia Harford: Australia’s anti-war, socialist poet
Lesbia Harford was one of the first women to graduate as a lawyer from Melbourne University in the First World War, but followed her sociali...