
In Love Me Tender, a mother’s fight for her child reveals how queerness is still policed
This powerful custody drama questions how society judges queer mothers.
Independent Analysis and Reportage

This powerful custody drama questions how society judges queer mothers.

You spend eight hours a night in the one room nobody ventilates. That’s bad for your sleep, and ideal for mould.

Conservation cannot only protect habitats where species once lived – it must include the places where they will relocate in a warming world.

COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose “New Zealand is not a monotonous garden where every flower is the same; it is a garden where the diversity of the blooms enriches the view,” Winston Peters declared in his maiden speech, 47 years ago. If you were looking for an image to illustrate the diversity today’s Minister of Foreign

Child mental health services are supposed to change lives. So why don’t we measure whether they actually do?

The minister cancelling his press club appearance was embarrassing and revealing.

A new review looked at 1,734 people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). But it couldn’t separate pesticide from other risk factors, such as head trauma.

Race Around the World emphasises on-screen personalities, light entertainment and not-too-critical feedback. What is being left unsaid?

The outgoing union leader said that beyond the new Victorian royal commission, ‘a lot more needs to be done’ to fight corruption in construction Australia-wide.

In an apparent Australian first, an attack on a Victorian defence manufacturer is being investigated as a potential act of far-left terror.

Keith Rankin writes; January 1956: "In a famous interview with Life magazine, Dulles formalized his philosophy of 'Brinkmanship', boasting that intentionally pushing the Soviet Union and China to the very verge of nuclear war was a 'necessary art' to secure peace." Is such Dulles-style brinkmanship Nato's present doctrine against Russia?

Even with human rights safeguards in place, the new convention risks giving authoritarian regimes new tools to target their critics.