The Drawing Room

Some people are born to be stars ... but what happens if you climb the ladder in your chosen performative field and suddenly realise you don't want to be the leading light? That happened to Australian singer-songwriter PJ Harding. 

What do you think of when you hear the name Gillian Triggs? On her return to Australia, she takes a moment to reflect on her career.

The news business feels like it's at a crossroads yet again, having survived into the digital age, journalism is now facing threats from artificial intelligence and a rising trend in news avoidance.

Find out why this code was considered one of the top 50 unsolvable codes in the world and meet the person who finally cracked it.

Sathnam Sanghera's new book Empireword explores the contrasting dichotomies of the empire's lasting legacy.

We’ve all looked to the heavens in a moment of panic and made a deal with whoever is up there to get out of a pickle that we’re in. Mozart must've known that feeling when he wrote the opera Idomeneo at the age of 25.

It’s as Scottish as haggis, smoked kipper and single malt whiskey - or is it? You’re about to learn that Tartan has a story far wider and perhaps older than Vivienne Westwood or the Punks, far older than William Wallace and Scotland the Brave as we know it.

A tall, dark and handsome man with his shirt half unbuttoned, stands holding a woman in his muscular embrace. She is also in a state of undress looking up at her saviour, swooning. There’s a rugged landscape behind them …. even the horse is looking lusty and brooding. 

This time last year Alexander Campbell, walked out his front door and just kept walking. He walked through Sydney to Katoomba, up through Lithgow, Muswellbrook and Toowoomba through to Karumba then Katherine and Darwin. 

In the beginning, there was Adam and Eve. This is where humans and their reproduction systems began, fully formed and ready to go. So says the big book anyway. Author and researcher Cat Bohannon has other ideas about who Eve is and how her body contributed to the continuation of humanity.