Afterpay's 39 billion dollar sale to Square, owned by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, has delivered windfalls for thousands of Australian investors. A new book "Buy Now, Pay Later - the extraordinary story of Afterpay" unpacks the story of the two founders and delivers a masterclass in entrepreneurship.

With the final US and NATO soldiers expected to be out of Afghanistan by the end of this month, an emboldened Taliban has turned its guns on key provincial capitals, after having taken control of much of the countryside and key border crossings.

With house prices skyrocketing in Australia and New Zealand, the Human Rights Commission in NZ has called an inquiry into the impacts.  So, do aspirations around home ownership need change, or does government need to pull more levers to re-align pricing with wages?

Sunday marks 75 years since the Australian National University first opened its doors to students, but the world is now a very different place to what it was back in 1946.

It’s been 75 years since one great power has been to war with another directly. That’s the longest interval in several thousand years, but historian Gwynne Dyer believes we could soon see this change if we don’t take time to examine our relationship with war.

Southeast Asia has quickly become the region hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, with many countries that successfully held off the pandemic last year now suffering from the spread of the Delta variant. The domestic social, economic and political ramifications could be significant, and they come at a time when the region is of growing geopolitical significance to the US and China.

Throughout the Covid pandemic people have been reminded of the key role of government in troubling times. But a new report says Australia's governance has deteriorated over the past decade. So what are the big issues facing the country moving forward?

The slow rollout of vaccines in Australia is underpinned by the fact that mRNA vaccines, like Pfizer and Moderna, aren’t made in Australia, and supplies of these vaccines from overseas has been uncertain and limited. The federal government is now considering a dozen proposals to manufacture these vaccines in Australia, but what will take to get this off the ground?

Vera Deakin was the youngest daughter of Australia's second Prime Minister Alfred Deakin. She was well educated, musically gifted and spent time in Germany and Hungary studying music in 1914. She was in London when Great Britain declared war on Germany and she was desperate to join the troops but was of the wrong gender. But the Great War did offer her a chance to change the course of her life and to leave a lasting legacy. She headed up the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry office, first in Cairo and later in London. Her reports are still used today to find missing soldiers.

An expected baby bounce since the initial Covid lockdowns has failed to eventuate and fertility rates across the globe are at record lows. While some people welcome the prospect of a smaller global population, a fundamental shift to fewer babies will result in serious consequences for our future world.