“Geert by sea,” says my brother, a riff on our father’s Dutch name, anglicised to George on arrival. Don’t leave me in a grave that no one will visit, our father said.

In late December, two weeks before the first lightning strike would spark flames in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, Dr Steve Leonard stood in its southern reaches, holding a steaming mug ...

After the chaos of Trump’s loss and the Capitol Hill riot, the Republican Party is at war with itself, and the warning signs ...

Lesley Hughes is an ecologist and professor of biology at Macquarie University who researches the impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems. She is a councillor with the publicly funded ...

Anna Funder is the author of All That I Am, which won the 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award, and the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize–winning Stasiland. She is a chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow at UTS.

Peter Sutton is an anthropologist and linguist at the University of Adelaide and South Australian Museum, and a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. His books include The Politics of ...

Cassandra Pybus is the founding editor of Australian Humanities Review. Her books include Raven Road, The Devil and James McAuley and her memoir Till Apples Grow on an Orange Tree.

The campaign to repair the single parenting payment was a model of how research and advocacy can push government to face the cruel effects of a policy and change course ...

Kathy Marks is the Sydney-based Asia–Pacific correspondent for the Independent. She is the author of Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets ...

Joëlle Gergis is an award-winning climate scientist and writer based at the Australian National University. She is the author of Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia ...

Ruth Balint is a writer and senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Troubled Waters: Borders, Boundaries and Possession in the Timor Sea.

Adrienne Ferreira is based on the NSW central coast. Her first novel, Watercolours, was published in May 2011. She is an alumna of Varuna, the Writers’ House, in Katoomba.