• Culture

    PM for Plutarch


    Matthew Sharpe |  July 11, 2026


    The writings of Plutarch of Chaeronia were an important part of humanistic education in the West for many centuries, influencing everyone from Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon to William Shakespeare, and the practical nature of his essays keep them timely in our social media age


  • Culture

    The end of romance


    Joanne Anderton |  July 11, 2026


    Set on an inhospitable future earth, Maria Takolander’s The End of Romance is a violent dystopia and, given the current state of the world, is all the more relatable for that.


  • Climate Change

    Snowcrash


    Andrew B. Watkins |  July 11, 2026


    Another poor start to Australia’s shrinking snow season underlines how rapidly climate change is altering our weather.


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  • Freddy Sitas

    Australian patients name financial pressure as top cause of cancer

    Freddy Sitas     |      August 25, 2011

  • Cloud Computing topic of the month

    Cloud Computing: To have your data everywhere and nowhere

    Marcus Moufarrige     |      August 24, 2011

    Marcus Moufarrige, Chief Information Officer & General Manager for Asia, Servcorp, delivered the following address at Global Access Partner’s Workshop on Cloud Computing in Sydney on Friday 24 June 2011.

    I’m going to get my politics out of the way first, because I know that there are a lot of government people present here. I think that as we go forward into the cloud there needs to be a sensible approach, and that government should be focused around policy and not necessarily building an enormous cloud and investing money into that.

  • Chris Stone

    Literacy for life!

    Chris Stone     |      August 23, 2011

    This week is Speech Pathology Week – a week in which speech pathologists all over Australia are asking you to stop and reflect on literacy and how it’s shaped your life.

  • Lara Shannon

    Litter…dropped on land, kills at sea

    Lara Shannon     |      August 21, 2011