Genius Or Charlatan? The Strange Tale Of A 19Th-Century Polymath Who Left A Trail Of Controversy Across Colonial Australia
About 20 minutes' drive north of Geraldton, on Australia's west coast, lies a hill named Mount Sommer. The little peak is one ...
The 25 best places to travel in 2025
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The art of dealing with Donald Trump
The president-elect’s aggressive claims about potential territorial expansion are a crash course for allies in his ...
Test your knowledge of the world's capital cities - with a twist
Bursting with ancient monuments and picturesque piazzas, Rome’s historic core must be one of the world’s most beautiful. The ...
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Is Australian English under threat from the Americans? It's not as simple as you might think
In the 19th century, no-one was raising the alarm about Australian identity being steamrolled. True, we were finding our own cultural feet, and some were critical of Australian English ...
Beach shacks are an iconic part of Australian summer. Yet, they also have a hidden, more complex history
Beach shacks have long been isolated and precarious. What we find charming today was once considered ‘fringe-dwelling’, ...
Mexican president trolls Trump, calls for renaming of parts of US
Claudia Sheinbaum’s comments came after Trump this week called for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the “Gulf of America” and ...
Beyond Evolution: Alfred Russel Wallace’s critique of the 19th century world
Modern historians and scientists hail Wallace as one of the bravest figures of the 19th century. He possessed enough physical ...