Recent articles from publications based in Australia.
New Atlasby Mike McRae19 Aug 2026
Psychedelics are inherently chaotic drugs, dissolving the boundary between self and surrounds by sowing discord in the brain. Many describe the results as profoundly life-changing.
New Atlasby Monica J. White19 Aug 2026
Modern laptops are the thinnest they’ve ever been. But this sleek form factor has a cost: optical drives are a thing of the past, full-size USB ports are becoming less common, and card readers are...
New Atlasby Bronwyn Thompson19 Aug 2026
A highly anticipated drug trial is in its final stages as its 350 participants receive their single dose to treat chronic low back pain.
New Atlasby Simon Heptinstall19 Aug 2026
Unveiled amid the high-octane glamour and pristine lawns of the Monterey Car Week in California, the Lucid Gravity GT-S is a direct assault on the most lucrative auto segment in North America.
New Atlasby Abhimanyu Ghoshal18 Aug 2026
Los Angeles-based The Minimal Company specializes in stripped-down phones that put just a handful of essential tools in your pocket and leave out the distracting stuff.
New Atlasby C.C. Weiss18 Aug 2026
The white cross with red surround has long been a sacred badge in the world of knives, indicating the timeless dependability and versatility of the Swiss Army knife.
Inside Storyby Administrator18 Aug 2026
Angus Taylor says changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount have put housing into “freefall,” blaming Labor’s “toxic taxes” for “a collapse in the housing market.” His comments...
Inside Storyby Administrator17 Aug 2026
Susan Sontag and Thomas Mann met just once, for afternoon tea, but the encounter had long-lasting consequences.
ABC News17 Aug 2026
In short: An ABC review of sacked reporter Mahmood Fazal's use of anonymous interviewees has found three more episodes of concern from Four Corners and Background Briefing.
Inside Storyby Administrator16 Aug 2026
Not long ago, Gina Rinehart asked an audience at a Queensland bush summit to imitate bulldozers. She had summoned on stage the bulldozer-in-chief, her ally Pauline Hanson, whose One Nation would —...
Inside Storyby Administrator14 Aug 2026
Michael Young deserves to be remembered for many things but is in fact remembered for just one: he was author of that extraordinary book, The Rise of the Meritocracy.
Inside Storyby Administrator14 Aug 2026
When IBM’s custom-built Deep Blue computer beat world champion chessplayer Gary Kasparov in 1997 — the first time a machine had defeated a world champion — a threshold was crossed, at least...
Inside Storyby Administrator13 Aug 2026
On Monday Donald Trump issued an executive order that, if implemented, would substantially reduce the number of vaccines American children receive and, in practice, how many of them are vaccinated...
Inside Storyby Administrator11 Aug 2026
Cultural Marxism has been around as a concept since the 1930s, but only in the past couple of decades has it taken off as a commonly used pejorative against the left in the United States and...
Inside Storyby Administrator10 Aug 2026
Everyone said I shouldn’t go. Friends and family — even my preternaturally understanding husband — were all against it. They thought there was no way I’d make it through the border.
ABC Newsby David Speers8 Aug 2026
Politics is a serious business, conducted by serious people, for serious outcomes (usually). With so much at stake, this is as it should be.
Inside Storyby Administrator7 Aug 2026
Disruption, volatility, insurgency and polarisation are the buzzwords of this political age. Now Britain, fresh from the sixth change of prime minister in a decade, has given us another term...
Inside Storyby Administrator7 Aug 2026
Less famous than Aboriginal leaders like Bennelong and Pemulwuy and less notorious than later Aboriginal outlaws like Jimmy Governor, Musquito (c.1778–1825) was a First Nations man who yet deserves...
ABC News6 Aug 2026
In short Award-winning ABC investigations boss Jo Puccini is leaving the public broadcaster after a 25-year career.
Inside Storyby Administrator5 Aug 2026
It is a strange feeling to see your work suddenly playing out on TV. There we were, sunk into the couch for another episode of The Pitt, the blood-soaked hospital drama set in a Pittsburgh...
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