Australia has long had a reputation for ingenuity. Do we remain an innovative nation?

Once the stuff of science fiction, facial identification technology is now very much a reality. Should we be worried?

Sports mad Australians are passionate about their clubs. They believe that team sport creates positive life lessons both on and off the field.

Melbourne lives and breathe Australian Rules. So it was a big deal in 1982, for the boys-only AFL, when a woman was appointed chief football writer for The Age. Caroline Wilson talks about her career highlights and sexism in sports reporting.

Sports journalist Caroline Wilson on her career in the male dominated world of sports reporting and sports stars discuss their love of sport and its place in our national identity

Brexit will likely strengthen the position of English as Europe’s lingua franca and at the same time de-stabilize the status of standard English.

Sarah Krasnostein talks about the incredible life and times of Sandra Pankhurst, a transgender trauma cleaner.

Charles Bean was our first official war correspondent and devoted his life to telling the story of Australians in the first world war. Bean wrote and edited the official history and campaigned for a national war memorial.

Is it time to change our attitude to crime and punishment and reconsider the effectiveness of prison?

Before the Anzacs and Gallipoli another Australian campaign claimed the attention of the world. Australian women won the right to vote and then travelled to England to support their British sisters.