Younger veterans battling PTSD have different issues than from the Vietnam days — new treatment programs were needed. Psychologists tell Crikey how they treat those struggling with combat stress.

The transcript and audio of academic Marcia Langton’s recent Boyer Lectures has been altered to remove her querying whether environmentalist Tim Flannery is “provocative and racist”.

As a young female navy veteran in her 30s, Hannah Parker doesn’t fit the mould of a post-traumatic stress disorder sufferer. But her story illustrates how the navy treats those who seek mental health support.

Angela Barra tells the story of her own forced adoption, and explains what it was like to be present, with her mother at her side, at the Prime Minister’s historic apology yesterday.

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs is in charge of helping veterans struggling with mental health issues. Its deputy director speaks to Crikey about what the department is doing — and its future challenges.

Soldiers are told to be tough, but mental scars go undiagnosed. A new Crikey investigation Battle Scars examines post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues in younger veterans.

Pope Francis will bring to the Papacy a rich heritage of openness, of willingness to walk alongside, of reflection and action in the world. At least that’s what one Catholic prays.

The US Tea Party isn’t that hard to understand — the libertarian streak is tiny and they’re an uneasy fit in the Republican Party. Chris Berg doesn’t seem to understand.

Plain-spoken and sometimes optimistic, Tim Flannery is trying to teach Australia about climate change — and its solutions. For all his accolades, though, some scientists don’t want him in their club, writes Crikey intern Michelle Slater.

Universities like to promote new research in the media, but don’t do nearly enough to make the research available for timely analysis, writes Alan Davies.

Does the Destroy the Joint movement actually miss the point? In a fiery blog post that had social media abuzz over the weekend, feminist provocateur Helen Razer says the small-target strategy isn’t working.

The NT government wants a mortgage-led development strategy for Aboriginal homelands. But can individualism and the free markets exist alongside Aboriginal kinship and land rights? ANU’s Jon Altman explains.

The Age’s Russell Skelton offers a bizarre and self-contradictory defence of Marcia Langton after Crikey revealed she failed to disclose links to Rio Tinto in her Boyer lecture series.

The winner of the architectural competition for Sydney’s new $40 million Green Square library has been announced. But in this day and age, asks Alan Davies, does it make sense to spend big money on branch libraries?

“There are a lot of solutions on the cusp,” says up-and-coming engineer Dr Jane Sargison on the task of reducing carbon emissions. Now she’s stepped out of her Hobart laboratory to lobby for the cash and commitment in Australian boardrooms to make them happen. Sargison comes in at #10 on The Power Index list.

They scatter in twos and threes to all quarters of the town. No mere murder of Crows here, writes Bob Gosford. It’s a massacre.

Marcia Langton has been accused of ditching serious debate for name-calling. Crikey finds there is much criticism of her approach among academic peers.

Cashed-up star Zach Braff has snubbed the Hollywood studio system and launched a remarkably successful Kickstarter initiative to finance his new film, writes Luke Buckmaster. Should we be worried?

Bethanie Blachard talks to author Chris Somerville, whose collection of short stories mix spare prose with quirky situations.

The way Netflix released House of Cards was touted as a game-changer. But it may have a detrimental effect on the quality of TV content, writes Laurence Barber.

The nerve centre of American political power is pulverised in Olympus Has Fallen. Whether it intended to or not, the movie represents a turning point for Hollywood blockbusters, writes Luke Buckmaster.

There was a time when we let an audience figure out for themselves how worthy someone was of admiration. TV shows such as The Voice prove those days are gone, writes Byron Bache.

A fresh batch of Paul Hogan related headlines remind us that while the Crocodile Dundee star might have a large knife, he has a limited capacity for good business decisions, writes Luke Buckmaster.

Tom Cruise and the director of Tron Legacy teamed up to make a US$100+ million art movie. It didn’t quite go to plan, writes Luke Buckmaster.

Director Danny Boyle’s new thriller is more psychotic than psychological — a wallop to the senses that comes on like gangbusters and never relents, writes Luke Buckmaster.

One is surprisingly fantastic, the other characteristically flat. Find out if you should dig into Hannibal or discover How to Live With Your Parents (For The Rest of Your Life).

Jeff Orlowski’s Oscar-nominated climate change documentary Chasing Ice reveals the delicate craft of measuring global warming on glacial ice. It’s no easy task — and neither is making a film about it. Orlowski speaks with Luke Buckmaster.

It’s #Logies night. So bring the bitch. Join the Wires and Lights team as they Stefanovic their way through the immeasurable glitz and vainglorious vagaries of television’s night of nights.

The federal government is giving a big Hollywood studio $21 million to film a remake of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in Australia. Is it money well spent? It does return, but not where it’s needed.

A wheelchair-bound US president, action figurines writ large, strange cults and chop socky action in this fortnight’s The Parallax Podcast, hosted by critics Luke Buckmaster and Rich Haridy.

The life of veteran American film critic Roger Ebert is inspiring for many reasons. None more so than those relating to his greatest “crime,” writes Luke Buckmaster.

Jane Campion’s six-part miniseries Top of the Lake is concise, careful and considered drama. Byron Bache from Crikey’s new TV blog Wires and Lights reviews.

Josh Thomas’ delightfully awkward comedy Please Like Me just finished up its first season on ABC2. Is he, asks Laurence Barber, the antipodean Lena Dunham?

HBO’s Girls has been consistently amusing in its representation of the experience of life as a writer. Liticism’s Bethanie Blanchard examines how Lena Dunham writes a writer’s life.

When a Die Hard movie doesn’t have one well-staged action scene, you know you’re in trouble, writes Luke Buckmaster.

Oscar-nominated director Alex Gibney’s exposé about sex abuse in the Catholic church may be slanted, but it has every right to be, writes Luke Buckmaster.

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is the latest example of how CGI can mess up depictions of magic on film. To explain why, Luke Buckmaster reminisces about his former life as an amateur magician.

Paul Fenech has been lobbing comedy grenades for eons. Whether he intended it or not, his latest movie is one of Australia’s most brutal satires of lower class suburbia, writes Luke Buckmaster.

Hollywood executives who followed the yellow brick road to Oz: The Great and Powerful found it led to unprecedented new laws regarding copyright regulation, writes Luke Buckmaster.

In a picture-postcard walled city, a new revolution is brewing. Quebec has been given a revival by a new matter-of-fact separatism now alive in Europe. Crikey’s man-at-large walks the cobblestones.

It’s such a cliché to say a city is “sprawling”, but sometimes, it’s the only word. And when it comes to Wuhan, China, home of 10 million people and a whole lot of smog, sprawling seems appropriate, says Alexandra Patrikios.

‘Capturing Flora: 300 years of Australian botanical art’ at Victoria’s Ballarat Gallery is a superb and enormous show, writes a spiritually nourished W H Chong.

Jimmy Wavehill is a local legend in Katherine, NT, where he has lived a long and adventurous life. Bob Gosford compiles some of his stories.

William Jackson was determined to try a bag of Taiwan’s famous stinky tofu — but it smelt like he’d just slurped down a load from a baby’s nappy.

Removalists detained … for removing possessions. Crikey intern Yolanda Redrup interviews the boss of the two workers accidentally taken for burglars in Melbourne yesterday.

Crimea is a beach holiday destination for many from the former USSR, but it’s the site of a former nuclear power plant that most captured K Johnson’s attention — and frustration.

The bridge between the city of Rezina and the city of Ribnita is eerily silent. It is no man’s land, existing between the Republic of Moldova and the breakaway republic of Transnistria, writes traveller K Johnson.

Jeff Kennett and Peter Newman think creating a rail subway in Melbourne would be visionary, but it wouldn’t address the key factors that drive public transport demand, writes Alan Davies.

Even though they drive much more than they use trains or buses, Australians want better transit more than they want better roads.

Lake Mungo and the Walls of China. An exotic, ineffable landscape of prehistory: here was Mungo Man, here was Mungo Lady. The endless plains of Mallee scrub. The glistening banks of the Darling. It called; we drove.

Paid-for junkets for travel writers are increasingly a part of the business, editors tell Larry Schlesinger. But how does it colour the reviews we read?

The Tjanpi Desert Weavers have a whimsical and very often funny approach to their art. More than a bit of that rubbed off on their northern counterparts, writes Bob Gosford.

Bouncing through the blackness on a dodgy road in the Czech Republic, fighting off fatigue and a cold, traveller K Johnson suddenly wondered: how did I get here?

Public transport only accounts for a small proportion of all trips in capital cities, but a new survey from the ABS shows there’s more to how we use PT than is evidient at first glance, writes Alan Davies.

The once successful relationship between chef Bill Granger and publisher Murdoch Books which catapulted Granger to fame has ended in acrimony in the Federal Court. Cara Waters of SmartCompany reports.

Younger veterans battling PTSD have different issues than from the Vietnam days — new treatment programs were needed. Psychologists tell Crikey how they treat those struggling with combat stress.

The transcript and audio of academic Marcia Langton’s recent Boyer Lectures has been altered to remove her querying whether environmentalist Tim Flannery is “provocative and racist”.

As a young female navy veteran in her 30s, Hannah Parker doesn’t fit the mould of a post-traumatic stress disorder sufferer. But her story illustrates how the navy treats those who seek mental health support.

Angela Barra tells the story of her own forced adoption, and explains what it was like to be present, with her mother at her side, at the Prime Minister’s historic apology yesterday.

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs is in charge of helping veterans struggling with mental health issues. Its deputy director speaks to Crikey about what the department is doing — and its future challenges.

Soldiers are told to be tough, but mental scars go undiagnosed. A new Crikey investigation Battle Scars examines post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues in younger veterans.

Pope Francis will bring to the Papacy a rich heritage of openness, of willingness to walk alongside, of reflection and action in the world. At least that’s what one Catholic prays.

The US Tea Party isn’t that hard to understand — the libertarian streak is tiny and they’re an uneasy fit in the Republican Party. Chris Berg doesn’t seem to understand.

Plain-spoken and sometimes optimistic, Tim Flannery is trying to teach Australia about climate change — and its solutions. For all his accolades, though, some scientists don’t want him in their club, writes Crikey intern Michelle Slater.

Universities like to promote new research in the media, but don’t do nearly enough to make the research available for timely analysis, writes Alan Davies.

Does the Destroy the Joint movement actually miss the point? In a fiery blog post that had social media abuzz over the weekend, feminist provocateur Helen Razer says the small-target strategy isn’t working.

The NT government wants a mortgage-led development strategy for Aboriginal homelands. But can individualism and the free markets exist alongside Aboriginal kinship and land rights? ANU’s Jon Altman explains.

The Age’s Russell Skelton offers a bizarre and self-contradictory defence of Marcia Langton after Crikey revealed she failed to disclose links to Rio Tinto in her Boyer lecture series.

The winner of the architectural competition for Sydney’s new $40 million Green Square library has been announced. But in this day and age, asks Alan Davies, does it make sense to spend big money on branch libraries?

“There are a lot of solutions on the cusp,” says up-and-coming engineer Dr Jane Sargison on the task of reducing carbon emissions. Now she’s stepped out of her Hobart laboratory to lobby for the cash and commitment in Australian boardrooms to make them happen. Sargison comes in at #10 on The Power Index list.

They scatter in twos and threes to all quarters of the town. No mere murder of Crows here, writes Bob Gosford. It’s a massacre.

Marcia Langton has been accused of ditching serious debate for name-calling. Crikey finds there is much criticism of her approach among academic peers.