
Mardi Gras blows out its 40 candles with gales of love, glitter and gay pride
From a night of police brutality when homosexuality was illegal, to Saturday night when two men legally married on the glittering Oxford...

HSC students urged to apologise after abusive messages sent to Indigenous poet
HSC students who have launched social media attacks on an Indigenous poet – in one instance comparing her to a monkey – have been...

Les Murray honoured at state funeral for ‘changing the nation’
Legendary football broadcaster and icon of the “beautiful game” Les Murray has been honoured at a state funeral at Sydney’s Saint Mary’s...

Homework of limited value, study finds
Homework is not useless but its quality is far more important than quantity and schools should think very carefully about why they...

Scientists find dinosaur fossils in Antarctica
Scientists have uncovered more than a tonne of fossils and dinosaur remains on a trek to Antarctica.

Lucky to be alive: Aussie avoids Brussels attack
Sheer luck and a quick taxi ride prevented Brisbane student Eliza Weder from being killed or injured.

#Viajosola: Women defend right to travel solo
Solo female travellers say the murder of two Argentine backpackers shouldn't stop women travelling alone.