Mental Illness Champions Found Down Under
Part IV of a four-part series looking at the sorry state of treating the mentally ill — beyond warehousing people in institutions or prisons — and the tentative efforts to improve the situation. Part I...
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Can Australia Keep Beating the Economic Odds?
LAST JUNE, AUSTRALIA completed its twenty-first consecutive year of economic growth. That’s a record, Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan pointed out, no other advanced economy can come...
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In Australia You Can Now Be a Woman, a Man—or Neither
A few hours ago a court in Australia eliminated gender as a binary proposition. The New South Wales court of appeals rejected a lower court’s ruling that Australians must check either “male” or...
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Forget Gold and Bitcoin: Kissing Is the New Currency
With the global economy generally pretty out of whack, you’ve heard the calls for a shift to the gold standard. (If not, here’s Ron Paul.) And you’re probably still wondering what Bitcoin is, too. Then...
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Meet the Croppies
On a January morning in 1966, a farmer named George Pedley was driving his tractor on his neighbor’s land near Horseshoe Lagoon, just outside the Queensland, Australia, town of Euramo, when he heard a...
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Would Banning Glass From Bars Curb Violence?
Alcohol, anger, and glass objects make for a dangerous cocktail. Though it’s not a common term in American media, Commonwealth news media often use the word “glassing” to describe attacking someone...
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In the Outback, Sometimes a Wildfire Can Provide a Warm Glow
As the roster of catastrophic wildfires grows each year, figuring out how to adapt to changing circumstances keeps fire ecologists and risk managers up at night. But there are some lessons to be...
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How to Appear Properly Annoyed by a Wiretap
Barely two months since the first revelations that the United States had been wiretapping, data mining, and otherwise listening in on various allies in Europe, we finally have an example of a proper...
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Australia’s Migration Hangover
Australia's commodities boom has gone bust. But what a ride it has been. All the activity fueled another boom, international migration: [Adelaide University demographer Professor Graeme Hugo] says...
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