The country has long relied on America for security and China for its prosperity. Those two pillars are wobbling ...

Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

Australian historians couldn't believe it when they found a clue about one of the world's oldest messages in a bottle.

IT’S early morning and I have just been woken by a pair of cackling kookaburras. The sky is cloudless blue and the ...

Where are the windmills? It struck me on a recent drive on the disappearing back roads heading into a town too far away. This ...