Up, down, sideways?
WHERE are Australia’s restaurants on the world stage?
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Renewables in the doldrums
A SPELL of calm weather exposes a fatal flaw in the case for wind power.
Monitoring reveals bad vibes
RESEARCH with a hearing-impaired woman ties pains to blade alignment.
New judge wins sympathy
THE public is over the unedifying and graceless attack on the Chief Justice.
Cobs and dobbers
A TURN in the cultural tide is robbing some Australian English words of their currency.
Antidotes to antiheroes
A NEW television series based on Alexandre Dumas’s 1844 book The Three Musketeers proves we still need good guys.
No fighting words
WHEN Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, Australia gave it little thought. Trace the genesis of WWI through the diaries of two Australians.
Empire states
An insightful new book considers 10 cities that helped make Britain great.
Forrest report a ‘launch pad’
THE PM appears ready to act on the document’s less confronting proposals.
Ebola ‘just a flight away’
HEALTH officials are terrified the world’s most contagious and deadly disease is set to go.
Land rights out of step?
ABORIGINAL elders want opportunity yet fear legal exploitation.
US imbalance on Asia pivot
THE constant drumbeat of conflict in Ukraine and Gaza masks the sound of a much deeper drum.
She has a mine of her own
GINA Rinehart’s long-held ambitions for the Roy Hill iron ore project near reality.
Swamped by violence
BUDGET cuts are pushing courts and families to breaking point.
The healing mind
IT’S like rebooting the brain. Neurofeedback is showing remarkable results for treating trauma victims — and its potential is even greater.
Into suburbia
RAY Donovan’s fixer and Devious Maids’ cleaners give us different views of Hollywood and Beverly Hills.
Why childcare is no laughing matter
WOMEN are prepared for the huge cost of care, but places are few.
Oration to transform a nation
THE commonly accepted wisdom is that good public language is finished and the speech is dead.
High drama
ANDREW Lock is the only Australian to summit all 14 of the world’s 8000m mountains. But his first conquest was almost his last.
Abbott accrues diplomatic capital
GLOBAL leaders are looking at Australia differently in the wake of flight MH17.
Deep water
AT Madison Square Garden, Daniel Geale takes on the most ferocious fighter on the planet. Will he sink or swim?
Eric Bana revels in first horror film
AUSTRALIAN actor Eric Bana, appearing in his first horror movie, has come a long way.
Strongman aims to down justice quest
PUTIN mounts a Soviet-style propoganda campaign.
Ice Age survivor
IT’S 43,000 years old and it still grows in remote Tasmanian rainforest. Can king’s holly survive?
Suiting himself
NEARLY 90-year-old Peter Brook, one of the world’s great theatre directors, is bringing his work to Adelaide.
‘She’s everyone’s best friend’
THE courtroom overflowed as strangers jostled with family for seats. Why did the trial of Allison Baden-Clay’s killer grip the nation?
Flight club
AUSTRALIA’S aggressive birds are at the forefront of a quiet revolution that is transforming the picture of our natural past.
War of words
AS Amazon’s feud with publisher Hachette drags on, the online bookseller stands accused of unfairly targeting authors.
What did Gazans think?
LET’S state the obvious: No one likes to see dead children. Well, that’s not completely true: Hamas does.
Kerry walks tightrope
ENDING the blockade of Gaza is key to ending the fighting.
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