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Night Watch: inside a quiet battle to save Australian bats in Queensland
The road curves like a question mark through the dark forest. Sonya Sanders squints into the beam of her headlights. A shape sprawls on the bitumen up ahead. She’s here in response to a report of a...
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Bikpela’s amazing journey
The RV Franklin bobbed gently on the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The sky darkened as night fell over the Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG). It was April 2000. The team of...
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New chapters
Of late, I’ve been editing more often than writing my own pieces. It’s been very rewarding – never more so than when designing and producing these beautiful, accessible, multimedia-rich feature...
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Exploring Australia’s deep ties with space exploration
Key points Glen Nagle has enjoyed a front row seat to some of the world’s most exciting moments in space exploration. Beyond its practical contributions, he values space exploration for the...
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Meet Ofa Fitzgibbons: Telling diverse stories
Ofa Fitzgibbons was 39 years old when she first met her son. Today, Ofa is a Senior Advisor with our Strategic Partnerships Program but in 2019 she was a Communication Advisor. © Copyright: sourov...
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How being profoundly deaf inspired Sinead Williams to love science
Sinéad Williams was born profoundly deaf. Then, in 2020, she lost what little hearing she had. The doctors told her she had developed sudden sensorineural hearing loss. “My world turned upside down. I...
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Rhys Nicholson on RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under’s ‘myriad issues’– and what...
Rhys Nicholson, stand-up comedian and RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under judge, still remembers the first time they watched The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert — at the age of six. The iconic...
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‘Absolute hell’: The luxury homes making London’s most exclusive...
“We’re probably walking above someone’s swimming pool now.” Roger Burrows has become used to walking on “icebergs” on dry land. In many areas of “super-prime” London, where the city’s super-rich have...
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What if we rid our galleries of ‘sex pests and paedophiles’? The brothers...
They flicked on the television just in time to see the second plane crash into the World Trade Centre. Moments before, 14-year-old Abdul Abdullah and his brother Abdul-Rahman Abdullah (older by nine...
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How unlocking the joys of ‘slimy, slithery and rubbery’ food can bring you...
There are some people who would be nervous to hear the food they are about to eat has “a high grapple factor”. Fuchsia Dunlop is not one of them. Dunlop is a celebrated expert in Sichuan cuisine and...
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With elephants and humans in conflict, Sri Lanka looks for new solutions
Farmers watch over their fields at night from treehouses like this one. (Smriti Daniel) It is difficult to predict when the elephants will come. As darkness falls around Udawalawe National Park,...
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Varanasi and Anuradhapura: Sacred Geographies
YOU CIRCLE THIS exhibition as you might a sacred site. The layout is such that one artwork leads you to another in a ring. The Red Dot Gallery in Colombo is so small that every work in ‘A Tale of Two...
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When it comes to toddy, timing is everything
We find our toddy tavern down a dirt road in Mannar; a one-room structure with a grimy, shadowy interior and an uninspired beige exterior. The only building for miles, it blends in perfectly with its...
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‘I am drawn to terrifying things’, says the novelist who feels squeamish...
Chhimi Tenduf-La was anxious about dengue even before the current epidemic in Sri Lanka reached its height this June. With 80,000 cases so far, and hospital wards overflowing, he felt his heart sink...
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Through the eyes of a pioneering forensic architect
Today, Prof. Eyal Weizman will deliver the 18th Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust Lecture at BMICH. Its open to all, and you should go. From experience, I can tell you that Weizman’s work is both provocative...
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Picos in a time of violence
You hear El Jude before you see it. Its music fills the streets around Mario de Moya’s cantina in Malambo, an hour outside the Colombian port city of Barranquilla. Mario has just returned from a...
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Aracataca: In Search of the echoes of a novel
Have you heard the story about Gabriel García Márquez’s 80th birthday party? Gabo was famous by this time, his years as a poverty stricken journalist having given way to his career as Colombia’s most...
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Bogota’s bibliophile trash collector who rescues books
Bogota, Colombia – Finding Anna Karenina in the rubbish would change Jose Alberto Gutierrez’s life. It was 20 years ago, but Jose still remembers first glimpsing the Russian classic by Leo Tolstoy in...
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A lesson from Colombia: how to defeat exotic frog smugglers
The first time, it was 400 frogs in a backpack. It was 1998 or perhaps 1999, and Colombian conservationist Ivan Lozano-Ortega was working at the Bogota Wildlife Rescue Centre—a drop-off point for the...
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A New Leaf
The town of Gampola in Sri Lanka’s Kandy district houses a 100-year-old structure comprising five “line rooms”—each windowless square, just ten by 12 feet in size, was once home to an entire family...
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