With a few cheap items and a good routine it’s possible to start or continue a fitness regimen at homeThe longer lockdown progresses, the more ovals and homes around Sydney resemble makeshift gyms. Some trainers have shifted everything but treadmills a…
When Covid came to the anti-vax capital of Australia
A noisy minority in NSW’s northern rivers are pushing back against Covid-19 restrictionsBenny Zable has lived in Nimbin on and off since 1973, when he arrived in town for the Aquarius festival – the event that seeded counterculture and escapist lifesty…
‘Gender is a kind of haunting’: Jennifer Mills explores the queer potential of the ghost story in The Airways
Miles Franklin-shortlisted author’s new novel follows a ghost who can inhabit different bodies in a reflective take on the genreIt’s hardly a spoiler to reveal that the chief protagonist of Jennifer Mills’s latest novel dies. It is fleeting, fragmented…
Australia ‘lagging at the back of the pack’ of OECD countries on climate action, analysis finds
Australia ranks 20th or worse in seven of eight categories despite Coalition claim it is leading the way in reducing emissionsClaims by the Morrison government that Australia has done more to cut greenhouse gas emissions than other countries have been …
Natsiaa 2021: the winners and finalists of Australia’s Indigenous art prize – in pictures
Western Australian artist Timo Hogan has won the coveted National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art award for his work, Lake Baker 2020.Hogan’s spectacular painting pays homage to his father’s country and invites the onlooker to witness his kno…
‘We are going to lose these birds’: the quiet fight to save the golden-shouldered parrot
Nearly a century after the extinction of the paradise parrot, a tiny team is trying to protect its cousin – by using land clearing In 1922, Cyril Jerrard captured the first and only photographs of the paradise parrot, the only Australian bird to be off…
NSW has worst day of Covid pandemic with 319 new cases, five deaths and lockdown of Armidale
Deaths linked to latest coronavirus outbreak reaches 27 as four new cases recorded in NewcastleFollow the Australian coronavirus live blogAustralians living abroad fear being trapped if they return home to visit familyNSW; Vic; and Qld hotspotsNSW; Vic…
Queensland crocodile attack: two army personnel mauled north of Lockhart River
Soldier in his 20s, who was swimming in croc-infested waters, and friend who went to help, suffer serious injuriesA soldier has head, chest and arm injuries after being mauled by a saltwater crocodile that also attacked an army colleague who went to hi…
Among Finland’s cold lakes and majestic pines, I learned to be present to beauty | Mette Jakobsen
Living alone for months in a European forest taught Mette Jakobsen a lesson to carry through the pandemic: to look at something beautiful every dayIn 2019 I travelled to a remote part of Finland to finish a novel.I was worn out. Three years in academia…
Pacific Islands Forum: climate crisis and old rows surface as leaders meet screen-to-screen
A Zoom meeting of prime ministers and presidents was never going to be a particularly smooth affairThere was what looked like a virtual walkout, veiled criticism of certain nations, a video address from the US president and of course, technical issues:…