Gifts to us all
Historian Manning Clark’s family home in Canberra is a gem of a place. And anyone can visit, thanks to the generosity of his family.
Nikki Gemmell
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Do kids ever recover from divorce? I didn’t
When parents are at war, it’s always the kids who suffer most. I’ve been there, as a child, and in middle age I still carry the scars.
In praise of trees
Trees are medicine and tonic. Life-giving, shade-giving, de-stressing and reviving. Imagine a world without them.
What exactly is a man’s tie for?
The man of the hour is someone who’s appeared more often than not in a T-shirt this year. Is that useless strip of cloth hanging from a man’s neck finally on its way out?
Have you spotted the winter gift in our skies?
We have Tonga to acknowledge for the intensity of the Australian sunsets we’re witnessing at the moment.
The sweetest punch
At last, there’s a new ideal of feminine beauty, which is a world away from traditional ideals.
No whitefella could tell this story
A new TV series dramatises the complexities of Aboriginal culture in a way that exposes a world hidden to so many of us. It’s a revelation.
How to please a woman? Here’s a clue
Women are finally saying what they want – but perhaps more crucially, what they don’t.
How long can the monarchist fiction be maintained?
Unlike some other countries this year in the Queen’s dominion, we’re not restive about the brutal facts of our past.
We need to talk about vaping
Australia, we have a problem. It needs to be tackled with a blitz as terrifying and effective as the grim reaper campaign.
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