There's an amazing chapter still to be told about the investigation into the "Kelly" skull. In order to even get to the DNA analysis, the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine has to conduct an historical investigation that had more twists than a...

  My great-grandfather, J.J. Kenneally, wrote the first pro-Kelly book. J. J., who grew up in the same country town as the Kellys, was ten when Ned Kelly was hung, so he is surely writing from experience when he says local children at the time used to play “the...

Illustration by Jeff Fisher for The Monthly. If a property bubble pops but no one reports it, does anyone know it has happened? I wrote about the property market and real estate journalism in Australia for The Monthly in May. For the piece, I spoke to bloggers like...

Black Inc has published a ten year collection of Australian essays. It includes wonderful work by writers like Clive James, Helen Garner, Robyn Davidson. I'm thrilled to say it also includes my New Yorker article about the 2009 Victorian bushfires.

In honor of Rico's contribution to science, a tribute by The Wogans.  

In "The First Word," I wrote about Rico, a German border Collie who could identify about 200 objects his owners had taught him. Now, in South Carolina, another border collie has been taught to understand 1022 nouns. His name is Chaser, and he was trained by...