Next year Knox Grammar – one of the state’s largest schools – will have educated boys at its upper north shore campus for a century. In that time, the private school has expanded from a single Federation-era house to vast and manicured grounds spanning almost 10 hectares. But the school’s motto “virile agitur” – a […]

Meet the Women History Makers of the Midterms The 2022 midterm elections aren’t over yet, and though key race results are still rolling in and control of the Senate and the House is too close to call, one thing is clear: women broke ground. Amid a deeply polarized political landscape, many of Tuesday’s victors made […]

Maxwell Alejandro Frost made history as the nation’s first Gen Z member of Congress. The 25-year-old progressive Democrat defeated Republican Calvin Wimbish for the open seat in Florida’s 10th congressional district by 19 percent in the midterm elections on Nov. 8. “We made history for Floridians, for Gen Z, and for everyone who believes we […]

In a TikTok video posted last September, pop singer Peach PRC marvelled at how the rest of the world will “never understand how good it is to be Australian and say the word no”. “I am chewing on those vowels; I am having a meal,” the 25-year-old proclaimed, before delivering a particularly elongated rendition of […]

National treasure, political statesman, polymath, quiz show champ, walking dictionary of biography and former federal minister Barry Jones walks into an anteroom of the State Library of Victoria to survey his collection of 878 autographs. Almost everybody who was anybody is contained within the 12 bound volumes, which the library has purchased for an undisclosed […]

UGLY scenes erupted outside the Tate Britain as rival demonstrators clashed over a drag queen story telling event. The Metropolitan Police said one person was arrested on suspicion of making a racially aggravated comment towards an officer outside the central London art gallery on Saturday. Around 30 far-right protesters clashed with similar numbers of counter-protesters […]

POLICE need to focus on seven key clues in the search for Nicola Bulley, two former top detectives say. The missing mum, 45, disappeared after dropping her children off at school in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, on Friday January 27. But as the police search heads out to the Irish Sea, 15-days since Nicola vanished – there […]

FIFTEEN people, including a 13-year-old, have been arrested after a protest in Knowsley spiralled out of control, police say. Violence erupted outside a hotel in Liverpool on Friday night where asylum seekers were being housed. Among those arrested were 13 men and two women, aged between 13 and 54, cops said. Hundreds of people gathered […]

Britain’s FBI get their man: National Crime Agency arrest one-legged British organised crime boss in Thailand after he had been on the run for five years Richard Wakeling, 55, was arrested in Thailand after he fled UK ahead of trial He was caught at a garage after car pairs while using a different identity  The […]

Dark side of the tune: How Pink Floyd legends Roger Waters and David Gilmour’s spat over Ukraine invasion is the latest fallout in long-running feud Roger Waters in new row says Ukraine is ‘not really a country’ and run by ‘Nazis’ It has sparked fresh row with Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour – one of many […]