Becoming a Man has good advice – but as a manosphere expert, I wish it wasn’t so gendered

The letters in Julia Baird’s book, co-edited with her son, contains some beautiful pieces. But it’s a pity the book isn’t ...

Friday essay: to tackle the dreadful rise in antisemitism, we must speak the truth about Israel’s war crimes

Robert Manne calls for thinkers like Simon Schama, publishers, and leaders of the Israel and Jewish lobbies like Jillian ...

From ancient Asia to the AI age: Has China’s ‘beauty stratagem’ found a new victim in Nvidia’s Jensen Huang?

Honey traps’ have long been used to gain an advantage over a rival. In China, it is a tactic documented in stories that go ...

A dead star is flashing radio waves every 8 minutes, and its partner looks a lot like the Sun

One idea was that they were extremely slow-spinning neutron star pulsars, the collapsed cores of enormous stars which also ...

Women suffer more from climate change. Policymakers must recognise this

For the first time, Australia’s climate change data will distinguish between men and women. This is long overdue.

Amid rising job cuts, these are your legal rights if you’re made redundant

If you work for a small business or a big company like David Jones, your rights to redundancy payouts can vary. Here’s what ...

RNZ’s budget crisis threatens its core purpose. But there’s an obvious solution

A small proportion of anticipated land sale revenue in the next financial year would help RNZ avoid drastic cuts – but will ...

The SS United States has been deliberately sunk – this is how marine life will colonise the world’s largest artificial reef

This week, one of the world’s most famous ocean liners, the SS United States, was sunk off the coast of Florida. At 302 ...

Extreme weather risk is scaring big corporations away from poorer countries – that hurts the companies, too

When floods, heat waves and other climate disasters cost companies money, the results can shape their willingness to invest ...

Ukraine peace talks end with no breakthrough – but Europe may be set to return from the cold

The talks took place against the backdrop of continued fighting on the frontline. Russia’s military currently controls about ...

Concrete and steel – or mangroves and forests? When it comes to climate adaptation, nature is much cheaper

Nature can protect coastlines, watersheds and waterways for a fraction of the cost of traditional infrastructure. Why isn’t ...