The hair that binds
Despite its bonding potential, a trip to the hairdresser’s can inflict trauma on soap-phobic pre-adolescent boys and their mullet-phobic fathers.
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Anzac Day and the birth of three nations
Anzac Day, which recalls the horrors of modern warfare, marks the birth of modern national conscience in Australia, New Zealand and Turkey.
Read more‘Redheads under the bed’ as a substitute for good reporting
A story that redhead sperm is not welcome at a Danish spermbank has gone global, reflecting how good reporting is being crowded out of the media by ‘incredible free content’.
Read moreScandinavia: is the far right far off?
Home-grown terrorism in Norway, a resumption of border controls in Denmark and an increasingly immigration-weary Sweden. Is right-wing politics taking hold in the once-tolerant Nordic countries?
Read moreWhere ‘no’ means jail time
In Dubai, the Middle East’s self-styled party capital, women who say they have been raped can find themselves behind bars for adultery.
Read moreLearning tolerance
Islamophobia is common in western society, so the classroom is a good place to start combating it.
Read moreMoving, not moving on?
Moving house is a back-breaking master class in logistics. But it’s also an emotional rite – moving from what was to what will be.
Read moreAustralia’s great outdoors?
Like shrimps on the barbie and hard yakka*, the great outdoors is one of the binding contracts of being Australian. Except it really isn’t.
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