Late ABC broadcaster Alan Saunders was like an intellectual optometrist who presented a different lens each week. He will be sorely missed, writes W H Chong.
Recent changes to Queensland laws represent once of the most significant rollbacks of gay and lesbian rights by a government in the Western world.
They might look like refugees from a time that taste forgot, but lycra wearing 'roadies' have played a key role in establishing the legitimacy of cycling on the roads, writes Alan Davies.
A recent UK project monitoring insulin resistance argues children's level of physical activity has little correlation to suffering from obesity and diabetes. What role, asks Alan Davies, can urban design do to promote healthy living?
There's more to a country’s level of home ownership than the wealth of its citizens, writes Alan Davies, discussing the relationship between property and national wealth.
The City of Darebin in Melbourne is considering imposing a higher property rate on franchised fast food restaurants. Aside from possibly being against the law, the proposal would probably do little to improve community health, writes Alan Davies.
Through the Bininj Gunwok Language Project, you can now subscribe to an email list and receive regular bits of vocab, grammatical info and more, in order to teach more people about ne of the nation’s strongest indigenous languages, writes Greg Dickson.
A Jewish cultural festival that "respects diverse expression" has again banned voices critical of Israel, after initially including them in its official program.
According to Chris Ketter, Secretary of the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association in Queensland, it’s “un-Australian” to charge workers to park their cars, writes Alan Davies, which shows how deeply ingrained driving is in our national psyche.
Does a new building design proposal for a development in Box Hill, Melbourne, look modern and chic, asks Alan Davies, or like Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer?
