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Defence of the Fertility Control Clinic

The front gate of the Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne is a frontline of the struggle over life and death rights in Melbourne.

A group of Catholic...

Anyone who’s ever been in a car with children will know that when they’re not crying, pulling each other’s hair or stuffing bit of fruit behind the car seats, they’re asking endless, unanswerable...

The taxi driver in Maui picked the accent straight away.

“Look out!” he said. “The Aussies are here!”

Turns out he used to date a woman from Australia. She used to bring tour groups to Hawaii and...

First of all, let me make it very clear: I do not have a problem with science. Secondly, let me make it even clearer: I have a problem with science.

It would seem that today science has taken over...

Perhaps I should preface this article with “I’m not a scientist, but…”.

A long time ago, people used to believe that it was necessary to cut up a cow or a slave to make sure the Sun came up each...

I never used to drive my car. It sat outside my house, different random parts either rusting or drying out depending on their orientation, the windscreen collecting dust, leaves, and at one point...

Soften The Fck Up is an initiative aimed at breaking down the “tough Aussie bloke” façade and getting men to open up to each other if they are depressed, worried or, as they put it, just feeling...

In the last six weeks of 2011, I attended six weddings. Week after week I found myself donning a suit to spend the day eating, drinking, making merry and dispensing presents like it was Christmas....

I imagine most of you reading this have a blog or your own little website, a place where you’ve invested time and energy so as to carve out your own little corner of the web. You’ve probably...

In 1796 a very special and very dangerous kind of idiot was born.

Smallpox was running rampant throughout Europe until a brilliant surgeon named Edward Jenner noticed something interesting....

As a full-time technology journalist who has specialised in the critiquing of video games for over a decade, you’d be amazed how many times I’ve been told that I have “every teenage boy’s ultimate...

Oh yes, I’m the great pretender
Adrift in a world of my own
I play the game but to my real shame
You’ve left me to dream all alone

They may have recorded this over fifty years ago but The...

I used to love watching acclaimed kitchen goddess, the luscious Nigella Lawson, when she first appeared on the small screen as the West’s primary exponent of food porn. By God she was sexy, I...

Some people hold political affiliations with an almost religious fervour.

Their political beliefs shape everything, from their world-view to where they buy their groceries. Almost every major...

Most of us have memories of staying in a caravan park. Whether it was as kids, parents, schoolies or backpackers, the caravan park is something that we share as a common piece of our past. Some of...

An hors d’œuvre course to the French, like antipasto to the Italians, is the start of the midday meal. Individual, small, simple dishes designed around an aperitif to stimulate the appetite, make...

Wine retailing, like the rest of the retailing world, is going through a bit of a seismic shift from bricks & mortar to clicks & order, which some might characterize as more of a stampede. In the...

As always, first correctly completed cryptic crossword sent to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You...