"God don't have no white church, and he don't have no black church," declares a hand-painted sign in Vicksburg, Mississipi, outside the legendary Margaret's Grocery. Bob Gosford pays tribute to its architect, the late Reverend H.D. Dennis.
Should state governments start charging motorists to use road space? Road pricing could ease congestion, writes The Urbanist's Alan Davies, and that's only the beginning of its potential benefits.
It may sound like a simple question, but pondering why people use public transport requires consideration of a number of factors, writes lan Davies.
Should new buildings and streetscapes be made in historic styles? How important is the demand to look "modern"? Alan Davies argues there is still a place for new constructions to embrace old aesthetics.
Facebook and email are Australians' preferred social media, depending on age. And Twitter barely features for them.
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.
So Noel Pearson has feet of clay. Does the emperor have no clothes? Academic Victoria Grieves examines how the media built up the Aboriginal leader then tore him down.
With the tragic case of SA mother Joanne Dunn and her comatose son in the news, Sarah Duggan examines the legal landscape on euthanasia and finds Tasmania may be the closest to legalising the practice.
Neil Armstrong’s passing will bring back billions of individual memories of the moment he stepped out of the Eagle and walked on the moon, writes Ben Sandilands.
Dr Charles Raison felt a bolt of shock when he learned director Tony Scott had committed suicide. Not because he knew him, but because of where it happened -- and what that location means to him.
