If we want to keep eating, it’s time to stop treating our soil like dirt.

Rachel Carson’s brave, science-based book — the beginning of the environmental movement — turns 50. Have we learned anything from giant blunders in the name of progress?

Julie Bishop’s calls to deport Sri Lankan asylum seekers are fighting words, unworthy of a nation devoted to humanity and the rule of law.

Australia is 50 years behind other advanced economies in laying down an amazingly sensible piece of infrastructure: the High-Speed Train.

A bitter race debate in a US Senate campaign reflects on Australia’s own recent “White is the New Black” controversy.

Australia’s action in the world court against Japanese whaling masks emerging threats to cetaceans in our own waters.

On the cusp of the Great War, the Stockholm Olympics featured art contests and a gold for Australia’s first female swimming champion.

World’s purest olive oil: Italy? Nup. Spanish? Wrong again. Better testing shows it’s often Australians making the extra virginest.

A rural doctor faced with a massive public health problem — kids going deaf from ear infections — finds solution in a box of fruit.

The winner of the Sydney Peace Prize is a Zimbabwean government minister almost beaten to death in 2007.

Australia’s commemoration of defeat is as elemental to Australians as our terrain.

New evidence of the murder of one man is key to revealing a conspiracy behind mass murder in Sri Lanka.

When Newcastle made it to the The Lonely Planet Guide’s must-see top 10 global destination list last year, many were shocked. Not in Newcastle, however, where they wondered why it hadn’t happened sooner.

The battlefield execution of a 12-year-old boy is fresh evidence of war crimes. Gordon Weiss was close to the drama as UN spokesperson in Sri Lanka.

Why would a Muslim shed his sweetheart, family, profession, nation and religion for a patch of Aussie housing commission?

When George Clooney came to Sydney, the Nuba population had his eye. War is afoot again in southern Sudan: Australians are playing a role.

What do Charlie Chaplin, 654 Australians, grey nomads, Henry Lawson and a winter crime wave have in common?

Refugees from the wreckage of what once was Yugoslavia carry their memories delicately as they find a peaceful life in Australia.

Long memories shroud a controversial monument in suburban Bonnyrigg, where Australia’s Assyrians remember their people’s bloody history.

From the misreporting of a picnic "massacre" almost a century ago to SIEV4 and beyond...