Australia Making Headlines for All the Wrong Reasons

Australia Making Headlines for All the Wrong Reasons

The recent United Nations COP26 conference in Glasgow has nudged the Pacific nation of Australia into the global spotlight for all the wrong reasons. On and off the playing field, Australians like to win and don’t respond well to criticism. Yet, numerous voices agree...
COVID-19’s Rude Awakening Boosted Community

COVID-19’s Rude Awakening Boosted Community

We are enduring a rude awakening to realities our everyday life in Australia allows us to ignore. We are discovering things that much of the “majority world” knew all along and lives with all the time. We are realizing that our so-called “normal” is in fact an...
In Praise of the Pig

In Praise of the Pig

A research article posted in the Jan. 13 issue of Science Advances reports that the oldest known example of representational art has been identified on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia – and it’s the portrait of a pig. Or at least three pigs, drawn in dark...