The Australian Open is the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, taking place from mid to late January in Melbourne. Dubbed today as the Grand Slam of Asia/Pacific, the event’s history dates back over a century. The first official Australian Open ...

Frank Bongiorno does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. This is the first in a series ...

When British authorities deported Irish rebels to their Australian penal colonies, they also exported a tradition of anti-colonial resistance. In March 2025, the severed head of King George V made a controversial appearance at a Melbourne concert performed ...

Australia’s most recent rediscovery of its Asian links, the Australia in the Asian Century White Paper, has been widely canvassed. It argues that ‘the tyranny of distance is being replaced by the prospects of proximity’, and in the aftermath of its ...

Robyn Moore's doctoral research was supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award. In this series, we’ll discuss whether progress is being made on Indigenous education, looking at various areas including policy, scholarships, school leadership, literacy ...

Figure 1: Aboriginal Australian and Papuan samples used in this study, as well as archaeological sites and human remains dated to ~40 kya or older in southern Sunda and Sahul. To date, only three Aboriginal Australian whole genome sequences have been ...

Motorsports, of any kind, has always been one of the most thrilling and visceral sports, ever since we sussed out that we could try and make cars and other vehicles go as fast as they can, for fun. Racing events are some of the most popular sporting events ...

Talk To Me, a horror film from Australia, has sparked a bidding war among major studios and has been acquired by A24, known for its standout horror productions. Australian horror films have a long history of being terrifying, thought-provoking, and ...

"Our innocence is over, you know?" says Yvonne Haber who was at Bondi on Monday to mourn the previous day's horror. "I think we will be forever changed, a bit like Port Arthur," she adds, referring to the massacre in 1996 – Australia's worst – which prompted sweeping,