Correspondents
22 September 2023
Brazil’s energetic president is set on galvanising the non-Western BRICS grouping, not least to fight climate change
Essays & Reportage
8 September 2023
A new kind of history is called for in the year of the Voice referendum. Here’s what it might look like.
National Affairs
18 August 2023
The defeat of the latest in a series of nuclear waste plans signals the need for a fresh approach
Books & Arts
9 June 2023
A lifelong birdwatcher reviews Libby Robin’s What Birdo Is That?
Correspondents
5 June 2023
The latest UN climate conference is under way in Bonn. But the real action might be elsewhere
Books & Arts
21 January 2023
A new book about urban mobility invites us to think differently about our streets: who do they belong to, what are they for, who gets to decide?
Correspondents
22 November 2022
Nearly forty hours behind schedule, a final climate compromise was reached in Sharm el-Sheikh. But important action was going on elsewhere too
Books & Arts
15 November 2022
Steve Morton’s Australian Deserts — winner of the 2022 Whitley Medal for an outstanding publication on Australasian wildlife — highlights the rich diversity of…
Books & Arts
10 November 2022
Australian historian Alison Bashford illuminates the Huxleys’ rich intellectual ecosystem
Correspondents
4 November 2022
The latest UN climate conference matters, though not for quite the reason you might expect
From the archive
4 November 2022
In this extract from Wandering with Intent, winner of this year’s Age Non-fiction Book of the Year award, Kim Mahood heads northwest on the Tanami Road
Correspondents
9 November 2021
There is a paradox at the heart of climate activists’ demands for the overthrow of capitalism
Books & Arts
30 October 2021
This precious ecosystem yields more of its secrets to forest scientist David Lindenmayer
From the archive
17 September 2021
In a compelling first draft of history, historian Adam Tooze captures an unstable, interconnected world
Books & Arts
31 August 2021
There’s plenty wrong with how the Murray–Darling is being managed, but Wall Street isn’t the culprit to target
Essays & Reportage
6 August 2021
Mandy Martin, Australian artist
Books & Arts
15 March 2021
Music | As the noise returns to our lives, sounds rarely heard are disappearing again
Essays & Reportage
17 December 2020
On Tasmania’s Central Plateau, a group of scientists prepares for a hotter future
International
10 December 2020
After weeks of protests, the Goro nickel smelter is up for grabs. Independence groups see the outcome as vital for the French dependency’s future
Books & Arts
18 August 2020
Television | The Chaser’s Craig Reucassel finds hope in the face of an eye-watering planetary deficit
Essays & Reportage
25 June 2020
As research on the health impact of the fire season continues, the lessons are becoming clearer
Essays & Reportage
4 March 2020
As the season’s last scientific resupply journeys are made to Antarctica, a visitor observes the deepening impact of climate change
Summer season
8 January 2020
The Australian bushfire has its own fine-grained local languages
Essays & Reportage
7 January 2020
Was the climate debate pushed off course by a misconceived strategy of persuasion?
Essays & Reportage
3 December 2019
George Seddon helped his readers see Australia from the inside
National Affairs
29 November 2019
What’s the best way to make households more conscious of their water consumption?
National Affairs
13 November 2019
Diary of a Climate Scientist | Bushfires and climate change are undoubtedly linked, so it’s time to get serious
Books & Arts
1 November 2019
Can the Greens reconcile internal pressures, parliamentary influence and electoral appeal?
Books & Arts
21 October 2019
Books | By recovering the forgotten history of the long-haired rat, Tim Bonyhady has produced a book for our times
National Affairs
6 September 2019
Native title is the latest casualty of the company’s coalmining plans. But will the project really proceed?