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My daughter’s European backpacker odyssey is nothing like mine. That’s her loss
Opinion Julia BairdJournalist, broadcaster, historian and author August 8, 2026 — 9:30am August 8, 2026 — 9:30am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA “I can’t believe,” says my daughter…
Finland’s’s pitch to Queensland for multibillion-dollar industry
August 8, 2026 — 9:00am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA The ambassador of Finland was busily working the corridors of power in Queensland this week, eager to offer the Nordic…
In the grips of Sir Joh’s moral panic, Felicity made a life-changing call
It was a time of fear and panic. A mysterious illness was spreading, and young, gay men were rapidly falling sick. Felicity Young, aged 24 when the HIV epidemic emerged in Queensland in the 1980s, describes a state gripped by hysteria. “It terrified the shit…
What gets WA researchers buzzing?
Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Kit Prendergast is so passionate about bees she often dresses like one, has a circus act called The Birds and the Bees that she performs at fringe…
My daughter was away on her birthday. I think rels should still buy her a gift
August 8, 2026 — 5:00am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Q: My thinking is that if someone’s on holiday when they have their birthday, you should still buy them a present to give to…
How WA is preparing endangered species for a potential outbreak
August 8, 2026 — 5:00am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Australia is the last continent on earth to experience cases of H5 bird flu, but with that unique status comes the key…
Disability advocates and human rights groups warn of significant harm under Labor’s proposed budget cuts
August 7, 2026 — 4:59pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Australia’s biggest disability networks and the national legal aid service have made a private intervention to the Health…
The $4m social housing project left half-built
August 8, 2026 — 3:00am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Social housing in one of Perth’s southern suburbs has been left standing with no completion date in sight, even though it was…
Time to end Western Australia’s armchair GST ride
August 7, 2026 — 5:12pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Pressure is growing on the federal government to act on the egregious Western Australian tax grab that has bilked federal…
Sydney can change while preserving its treasures
August 7, 2026 — 7:30pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA I have long felt a sense of unease about the renovation of North Sydney Olympic Pool. It was less about the astronomical…