01/04/2012
Photo by James Braund, Design Di Quick
Rick Farley's biographers, Nicholas Brown and Susan Boden, reflect on his legacy.
Australian military history is a field of study under constant siege by Anzac mythology. Like most national myths, Anzac is based on inspiring narratives, concepts and images about a country’s past. It serves as an important unifying representation and affirms a set of self-perceived ...
Kathy Bail
UNSW Press: Celebrating 50 years
Coming 20/05/2012

UNSW Press is celebrating 50 years

Culture

Broadcaster, writer and columnist Mike Carlton on Come the Revolution by Alex Mitchell, at Gleebooks, Sydney

Mathematics

Leopold Kronecker, a nineteenth-century German mathematician, once said ‘God created the integers; all else is the work of man’.

History

John William Lewin is one of Australia’s most imaginative and engaging – but least known – colonial artists. If anyone knows anything about him – he landed in Sydney in January 1800 – it is the story of his missing the boat which was supposed to bring him to NSW. This mistake was ...


Design

Thou shall not use Comic Sans

Culture
Playground duty
Ned Manning

I approached the end of seventeen years teaching at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts with a mixture of emotions. I was excited about leaving Sydney for a new adventure in Melbourne. I knew I’d been at Newtown for long enough. Seventeen years in the one place is ...

Society
Lucky country?
Barbara Pocock

Did you know Australia ranks sixth among twenty-eight countries surveyed by the OECD in terms of average hours worked by full-timers? We’re meant to be the easygoing country, yet full-time workers in Australia work on average, per week, two hours longer than Germans, almost three more than the French ...


Culture
News and chat
Barbara Alysen

One of the surprises of the Sydney Festival this year was the lecture by American public radio program maker Ira Glass. It lacked the spectacle of many of the other Festival events: just a man, a microphone and an iPad. But this presenter, of a niche weekly radio program from ...

History

15 February 2012 marks the day 70 years ago when 130,000 British, Australian, and Indian soldiers surrendered to the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. Some historians, even today, in order to easily explain away the rapid fall of Singapore, refer to all these men as troops of ‘a ...

None

It’s another stinking hot day, you feel sticky and tired. What can you do to keep cool inside your home?


 
 
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