From Annie Lennox and David Byrne to ritual, childhood listening and Sweet Dreams, repetition in music can regulate, absorb ...

Sanctions are sold as a peaceful alternative to war, but their effects often fall hardest on civilians – through poverty, ...

Indonesia built its national identity around Bhinneka Tunggal Ika – unity in diversity. From next door, Pauline Hanson’s ...

In his Quarterly Essay, Waleed Aly finds modern liberalism increasingly hollowed out and detached from older ideas of civic ...

Annie Jacobsen’s new book imagines a laboratory accident unleashing a weaponised plague across the world. Recent events in Siberia make its fictional scenario feel uncomfortably close to reality.

Australians increasingly accept that climate change is real, yet governments continue approving fossil fuel expansion and development in known risk zones. The longer action is delayed, the harder and ...

A new film about queer lives erased by the Spanish Civil War feels newly urgent as Spain again debates sexuality, historical ...

Australia is pouring billions into US and UK submarine industries while both countries struggle to meet their own naval needs ...

The government's digital duty of care would require online platforms to prevent serious harm, while new safeguards aim to ...

Australia’s home battery rollout shows how infrastructure can be distributed rather than concentrated. The same principle could reduce the pressure AI data centres place on power, water, housing and ...

Pork barrelling is not always corrupt, but discretionary grants create obvious risks of political favouritism and conflicts ...

Frontier AI depends on a highly concentrated supply chain for advanced chips. That creates a practical chokepoint governments could use to slow new model training without giving up the benefits of ...