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Beatrice Faust was an iconoclastic public intellectual. I first encountered her through her columns in the Weekend Australian in the 1990s. She was by then a standard-bearer for second-wave feminism, at a time when public conversations about feminism were defined by inter-generational conflict.

A tariff deal between the US and UK has provided the first off-ramp for Donald Trump's trade crusade, but uncertainty continues to weigh on investor sentiment.

Melburnian Sione Tuipulotu believes divine intervention was at work after he earned the call to play back home in Australia for the British & Irish Lions.

Tom Craig has been recalled to the Kookaburras after serving a six-month Hockey Australia ban following his arrest in Paris after the side's Olympics exit.

Church leaders are confident they have a "foot in the door" to getting Pope Leo XIV to Australian shores after his sudden rise to the papacy.

If I asked you to picture a racist, I know exactly what you’d envision. A white hood, or someone screaming slurs, or a person praising slavery.

Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely as non-Indigenous Australians to suffer from disease, particularly chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and kidney disease.

When United States President William McKinley advocated high‑tariff protectionism in 1896, he argued squeezing foreign competitors behind a 50% wall of duties would make America richer and safer.

Maro Itoje, the man Eddie Jones felt wasn't captain material, says he's honoured and humbled to be have been chosen as the Lions' leader in Australia.