Society & Culture

Brendon McCullum, the pioneering former New Zealand captain, has emerged as the favourite to become England’s Test head coach with an announcement on the successful candidate due this week. Rob Key, the director of England men’s cricket, is looking to recruit separate coaches for the Test and white-ball sides, with …

Now a documentary he has made that chronicles his mother’s final years, Everybody’s Oma, will have a world premiere at Sydney Film Festival next month. Described as an “uplifting film that charts the family’s playful, moving and hopeful journey in the public spotlight and behind the scenes”, it is competing …

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) has released a new Clinical Practice Resource that will help direct the treatment of patients with hearing loss: “Clinical Evaluation and Etiologic Diagnosis of Hearing Loss: A Clinical Practice Resource of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics.” This ACMG …

May 10, 2022 From (L-R): Professors Carola Vinuesa FAA FRS FAHMS, Bob Pressey FAA FRS, Richard Robson FAA FRS and Jamie Rossjohn FAA FRS FAHMS. Photos: supplied Four Australian scientists have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, for their outstanding contributions …

Many people’s reaction to this confusion is to refine the category of “healthy” until it’s full of foods essentially available only to people who live on a farm, as well as close to other farms, with the ability to spend every day prepping fresh farm-sourced food for themselves. They also …

Heiress and actress Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham, the son of David and Victoria Beckham (aka Posh Spice).Credit:German Larkin/British Vogue The wedding of Brooklyn Beckham and billionaire heiress Nicola Peltz last week marked the union of two powerful dynasties from either side of the pond. Brooklyn, 23, is the eldest …

We did that by building a series of tech guilds. We built a cloud guild, a data guild, an insourcing framework. We built our NAB Engineering Foundation and with a goal of building a culture of innovation of cloud, of agile, and being able to deliver great products and services …

Most nights, when Vernie “BlueRukus” Valentos boots up the PlayStation in his home in Western Melbourne, he’s joined by a few dozen online spectators who have gathered to chat and watch him play. They come from all over, teenagers and the middle-aged, and have been doing so for years. For the 28-year-old, they …

In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, many world leaders asserted something that seemed sensible – and welcome – to fans of science everywhere: put simply, that they would ‘follow the science’. But if you step on to a modern university campus, or take a tour through the variety …

In a deserted mall in the middle of the CBD, a new retail store awaits a horde of collectors vying for their pick of past eras’ best cinema. There’s a 1979 essay by Joan Didion about a man that breeds orchids for a living in the US. At one point …