A zero waste life
Self-described ‘accidental environmentalist’ Anita Vandyke had it all – a rocket scientist qualification, a well-paying corporate job as a manager in a large engineering firm,…
By Azal Khan - 2 min read
Inside the Lindt Café siege
It’s almost four years since Man Haron Monis took 18 hostages in Sydney’s Lindt Café so you may wonder what else can be written about…
By Jane Southward - < 1 min read
The social rebellion
Maz Compton has it all. She’s gorgeous and funny, has an amazing career, a fabulous partner, and lives on Sydney’s northern beaches.
By Claire Chaffey - 2 min read
Mr Ordinary goes to jail
The popularity of TV series like Wentworth and Orange is the New Black has exposed a huge, somewhat voyeuristic, demand among audiences to discover what…
By Kate Allman - 2 min read
Murder at dusk
Only once has a foreign court hanged a man on Australian soil. It is May 1942 and Melbourne was torn between fearing Japanese invasion and revelling…
By Azal Khan - 2 min read
Eggshell Skull
It can be fascinating to see how many lawyers become great writers. Law graduate-turned writer Bri Lee (her bio says she “is qualified to practise…
By Kate Allman - 2 min read
Rather his own man
Early in the preface to Rather His Own Man, lawyer Geoffrey Robertson maps out the place that this “reliable memoir” should hold among some of…
By Justin Moses - 2 min read
Freedom to libel?
This collection of essays concerns one of the first cases of libel to rock the colony of NSW. R v Campbell [1817] was brought by…
By Neil Foster - 2 min read
Zero hour
Harry S. Dent, Jr. is a Harvard-educated demographer and economic forecaster known for his bestselling books The Great Boom Ahead, The Sale of a Lifetime,…
By Nicholas McGann - 2 min read