This Month
Why Vanessa Hudson’s kids didn’t want her to be Qantas CEO
The airline boss opens up about career timing, why it’s OK to be wrong, and why the timetable for fleet renewal is fine, thank you very much.
The English whisky distilleries ruffling Scottish feathers
These 20-year-old upstarts are taking on centuries of northern tradition in a war of the whiskies – and even have conflicting views on what makes a single malt.
Conspiracy theorist in your life? Sit them down with ChatGPT
New research has shown that generative AI is better than a human interlocutor at getting somebody to change their mind.
How Reddit became the nicest place on the internet
Once an outpost of revenge porn and racism, the 20-year-old site’s daily usership has surged as its humanity stands out from the AI-driven competition.
An aged care musical? Straight to the pool room, said Tom Gleisner
The creator behind The Castle and Utopia spent many hours visiting nursing homes, and emerged not depressed, but inspired to write songs.
Inside the friendship that made The Beatles
A new book uses John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s songs to tell the story of their epoch-making, yet intimate bond.
How Crocodile Dundee became an icon, especially for its investors
A new documentary on Australia’s highest-grossing film lacks bite, but boasts interesting detail about the investors it enriched – including late wicketkeeper Rod Marsh.
Forget Truth Social, Trump is making people flock to Reddit
The erstwhile ‘front page of the internet’ has, at 20 years old, regained relevance as public servants threatened with the sack use it to share information.
Inside the world of vigilante scam-baiters
They claim to fight for victims of online scammers, but are they really just trying to go viral?
If Musk aims to save trillions, he’s doing it wrong: Yellen
America’s former Treasury secretary Janet Yellen speaks candidly about Trump, getting DOGED, choosing economics and why she’s an inveterate planner.
Disney’s Snow White is not too woke – and it’s better than Wicked
This flashpoint of the culture wars avoids being the disaster many feared (or hoped for).
How to direct a musical on a ‘football field’
There’s a lot riding on Opera Australia’s annual outdoor production but Shaun Rennie is more worried about actors getting to their marks, and nothing getting blown into Sydney Harbour.
Trump Anxiety Disorder is real, says this shrink
Pyschologist Peter Quarry is not alone among his colleagues in noticing more clients want to process their feelings about the 47th president.
Hidden under Central Station lies a clock collector’s paradise
A secure chamber in the catacombs of the Sydney rail hub holds a decade-old collection of timepieces. It’s worth thousands – but rail bosses are unsure what to do with it.
You can’t unsee this terrifying ‘man-suit’ android
The inventors of the Protoclone hope it can be a skin for future AI applications. In the meantime, it is hanging around looking scary.
Johns Hopkins to cut more than 2000 workers in Trump era
The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $US800 million from its budget.
The Melburnian and MAGA favourite behind the ‘Doping Olympics’
Aron D’Souza, the Melburnian founder of the controversial Enhanced Games, is backed by Peter Thiel and Donald Trump jnr, and has big plans for the future.
He was David Helfgott’s hands. Now he must have fingers in many pies
Sharing the stage with a $16 million violin and donning a powdered wig to become Mozart – pianist Simon Tedeschi on the eclectic lot of a classical musician.
He walked to his car as others sprinted. Then he won Le Mans
On the eve of the Australian F1 grand prix, we talk to Jacky Ickx, who struck a blow for safety in motorsport’s most dangerous era – and won several big races.
This actor has the legal profession flocking to see her show
Heather Mitchell is reviving the crowning role of her long career, playing the US Supreme Court judge in RBG: Of Many, One.