A question of heritage

Australia has welcomed immigrants from many countries, and, together with indigenous people, we should all be Australians first.

Something or nothing

People have been suspicious of ‘nothing’ going back all the way to the mathematical idea of “zero.” Yet there is real value in “nothing” and we need to appreciate it more.

Conserving Australia’s cultural record

Our cultural record is the history of Australia’s identity, but, unless care is taken to conserve it with a clear cultural understanding, we risk the loss of those parts of our heritage that tell us the story of what it is to be Australian.

Sex and the remake

A new book explores the fraught process of taking on a TV or film remake, and why updating attitudes to sex may not always work.

How we see into the future all the time

Researchers are helping explain how the human brain can accurately predict where a fast-moving object will end up. And why some people are better at it than others.

World cultures and the Western Pacific at the South Australian Museum

Turning away from the colonial notion that a museum looks at human cultures through an ethnographic lens, the South Australian Museum now aims to think about human cultures as part of a global ecology in which we all participate.

Culture shift: redirecting humanity’s path to a flourishing future

We see humanity as split from nature, reason split from emotion and people split from each other. Jeremy Lent believes that it’s time to build a new worldview based on a deeper sense of connection.

Australia must innovate to prosper and thrive

In his address to the National Press Club, Bill Ferris explains why innovation should be celebrated and encouraged in Australia, not feared or tiptoed around like some “elephant in the room”.