Yesterday
Japan’s enduring fascination with kamikaze pilots
Japanese tourists still flock to memorial sites to remember the young men who crashed their planes into Allied warships.
- Alexander Wooley
This Month
- Opinion
- Holidays
When did Sydney’s beaches start looking like campgrounds?
Call me an old hippie, but I still believed that respect for our hallowed coastline extended beyond not littering to keeping visual pollution to a minimum as well.
- Mark Mulligan
‘Everyone owns the beach’: Albanese slams cabana sand hogs
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says it is “not on” for Australians to use cabana shades to reserve space at popular beaches.
- Updated
- Michelle Bowes and Lucy Slade
December 2024
The podcast all of federal parliament is obsessed with
Australia’s political leaders have ambitious reading and streaming plans for the summer break, but one audio program is winning bipartisan support.
- Tom McIlroy
January 2023
The etiquette guru who broke up with a boyfriend over text
On ‘Mind Your Manners’, Netflix star Sara Jane Ho offers practical advice for a new, global world.
- Maureen O'Connor
January 2022
The world’s biggest crypto fortune began with a friendly poker game
He used to make cheeseburgers at McDonald’s. Now, Changpang Zhao is crypto royalty, worth almost $100 billion.
- Tom Maloney, Yueqi Yang and Ben Bartenstein
- From The Archives
- Platinum Year
Behind the scenes with a hostile Lang Hancock
AFR Classic | John Edwards spent five days with Lang Hancock in April 1971. He came to like Mr Hancock, as most people do, but dislike his opinions and everything he stands for.
January 2021
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Ivanka the inevitable?
After four years as a "senior adviser" in her father's administration, Ivanka Trump seems to be preparing her own political career.
- Nina L. Khrushcheva
How Netflix changed the channel
The unorthodox philosophy that transformed a struggling mail-order DVD company into one of the tech industry's great powers.
- Ian Leslie
Opera-wellness: Pioneering charity combats problems with music
At a time when many are feeling particularly isolated or anxious, the appeal of a personal recital online can get straight to the emotional core.
- Louis Wise
The costly legacy of Jared Kushner's real estate gambles
The family company that Donald Trump's son-in-law once ran has spent the better part of the past four years unwinding its scion's New York property bets.
- Caleb Melby and David Kocieniewski
How will you remember 2020?
It’s hard to imagine forgetting the momentous world events of 2020, but human memory is a tricky thing and the repetition of lockdown further complicates matters.
- Sarah Manavis
All the right moves in The Queen's Gambit
Super-fast computer programs and massive databases have had a profound impact on professional chess in recent years, but the game is currently in remarkable creative and economic health.
- Kenneth Rogoff
October 2019
High-flying designer David Caon on the books that keep him grounded
At work, the creative mind behind the Qantas Dreamliner cabin refit has his head in the clouds. But when reading, he connects with the mundanities of life.
- Nicole Abadee