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Some of Australia's largest IVF clinics have passed inaccurate information about children born from sperm donations to their male donors.

Why is it so hard to write about being a widow? My story has no redemptive arc. No community rallied, no family came together, no strength was discovered. Just sudden loss and ongoing adaptation without resolution. These are the widowhood stories we don't want to hear but need to tell.

Hear David Tennant as you have never heard him before... The tables are turned as David sits in the hot seat, interviewed by none other than his wife Georgia Te

Australia's first female neuroscientist, Dr Rose Mason, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by ANU.

THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and the 2020 LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book…

Horizontalism and its discontents

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

The outgoing member for Melbourne understood if the Greens genuinely want to be a party of government they have to win lower house seats

Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

By popular demand we are releasing last month's Patreon bonus episode on the main feed! We chart the transformation of the lab leak from an unfounded theory promoted by right-wing cranks to an unfounded theory promoted by liberal journalists.Where to find us: Peter's newsletterPeter's other ...

If you remember when Howard DJ'd like a mad c*nt...this story is for you.

Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them | Leaders

di Jock Gardiner1. Within a week of each other, Australia and Canada held federal elections that produced remarkably similar results: the incumbent parties of the centre-left winning power; their Trump-curious conservative opponents not only losing the elections, but also seeing their leaders lose their parliamentary seats. In what has been a pretty gloomy period for this Blog’s European audience – the electoral situation in Romania, recent Reform wins in UK local elections...

When writer Helen Garner began following her grandson’s under-16s football team, she gained a new appreciation for 'the ordinary beauty of human society'.