33 h. ago Inside Australia’s most dangerous lab: The fortress built to fight the world’s deadliest viruses

A sprawling complex of ultra-high-security labs, the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness sits right at the border between humans and the masses of animal viruses that would love to infect us. The labs have never been busier.

Events

33 h. ago Her mum is now 94 – but Wild Swans author Jung Chang can’t visit her in China

The bestselling Chinese-British writer on why her books are banned in China, the “incredible evil” of Mao Zedong – and China’s mission to dominate the world.

Politics

49 h. ago Forget big nominees like Cate Blanchett, Australia has already won at the Emmys

The Australian and American versions of Love on the Spectrum have now won eight Creative Arts and International Emmys in three years.

Politics

51 h. ago ‘I love you brother’: For the Trumps, Charlie Kirk is a deeply personal loss

When the US president spoke of his “grief and anger” hours after Kirk’s assassination, it showed how seamlessly the MAGA activist had woven himself into the Trump family fabric.

Politics

57 h. ago A disconnected phone is giving people a chance to say goodbye to their loved ones

Rotary-dial phones left in nature are helping some people finally say the things they’d wanted to express – but couldn’t.

Politics

57 h. ago At a loved one’s memorial, I got the giggles. Why we laugh at the worst moments

I know that nervous laughter is a physiological response, and that it does not correlate with lack of love.

Politics

3 d. ago Staff gone, kids kept home, funding paused: Inside a northside kindy’s crisis

A bitter dispute among staff and parents at a much-loved Brisbane community kindergarten has thrown the centre into chaos.

Events

4 d. ago ‘We were so imperfect, the both of us’: Arundhati Roy on her mother, Mary

The Booker Prize-winning author’s new memoir explores the complicated relationship with her late mother.

Politics

4 d. ago ‘We were so imperfect’: Arundhati Roy tackles her most personal subject yet

The Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things explores her complicated relationship with her late mother in her new book.

Politics

4 d. ago Six of TV’s best love triangles (before Team Conrad v Team Jeremiah)

The Summer I Turned Pretty is the latest in a long line of soaps and teen series to have self-respecting adults screaming at their TVs.

Politics

5 d. ago Gerry Ryan’s Saints lost the 2010 premiership. The Melbourne Cup

The sport-loving businessman talks about his love of the Melbourne Cup, a small country town and the dream of an elusive flag for his beloved AFL club.

Politics

5 d. ago Gerry Ryan’s Saints lost the 2010 premiership. The Melbourne Cup – and dinner with Eddie – eased the pain

The sport-loving businessman talks about his love of the Melbourne Cup, a small country town and the dream of an elusive flag for his beloved AFL club.

Politics

5 d. ago How Mick Herron fell in love with Jackson Lamb and the Slow Horses

Mick Herron wanted to write a standalone novel. Then he found he had too much fun with the world and characters he had created.

Politics

7 d. ago ‘If you’re a butter chicken lover, you need this’: The burger that left our critic speechless

Tiffin Box fuses Indian and Aussie takeaway favourites in Melbourne’s south-east, using spice masalas roasted in-house.

Politics

7 d. ago Virgo: Take care of financial problems you’ve been putting off

Free weekly forecast in life, love and career from renowned astrologer, Hedy Damari.

Politics

7 d. ago The emotional torture of recommending something you love to someone you like

If sharing is caring, why won’t you watch, read or listen to the thing I specifically mentioned to you, hoping our shared appreciation of it would bond us for eternity?

Politics

8 d. ago Codependency can make us ‘insane’: What Eat Pray Love’s author wants us to understand

Her memoir sold millions and became a hit movie. But for Elizabeth Gilbert, it was the death of her partner that helped her find what she was looking for.

Politics

8 d. ago His film’s been called ‘singularly annoying’ and ‘deeply unpleasant’. He doesn’t understand why

Indie director Jim Hosking has built a cult career around his polarising absurdist comedy.

Politics

8 d. ago He wasn’t perfect, but from a daughter’s point of view, he was pretty damn close

On September 22, 2022, my parents were on a trip up North in WA, doing what retired people love best, driving around experiencing the red dirt, warm sun and unique Northwest Aussie lifestyle. Unfortunately, life doesn’t give you a timeline of how long you have, and this day, was the last day given to my darling Dad.

Politics

8 d. ago ‘Destroying a proven breeding ground’: Peter Carey slams Meanjin closure

The acclaimed Australian author added his voice to outcry over the Melbourne University Press’s decision to stop publishing the literary magazine.

Politics