Features, explainers and long-form stories from across Australia.
For every cricket fan who grew up in the 2000s, Ricky Ponting was the guy you loved to hate — and secretly copied in the backyard. Strip away the rivalry, and you find a career with three World Cup wins, 71 international centuries, and a captaincy record that still shapes how Australians talk about the … Read more
Some tennis stories start with a name you can’t forget, and Rinky Hijikata’s does — part Sydney prospect, part “The Prince of Tennis” talking point — but the career behind the name is the more serious plot. He turned professional in 2021 and by August 2024 his singles ranking had reached a career-high No. 62 … Read more
Every family has its own version of the spotlight question: who gets to be seen, and who gets to stay home. For the Carters, that question has played out in public since Blue Ivy Carter’s birth in Manhattan in 2012 as the first child of Beyoncé and Jay-Z (Wikipedia, the open encyclopedia) — she has … Read more
You’ve seen the cropped suits and the four-bar stripes even if you can’t name the designer behind them. What reads like a sportswear logo is actually the signature of an American luxury house that defended its identity in court against adidas, joined the Zegna Group in 2018, and sells cardigans that cost more than some … Read more
Few dogs pack as much personality into such a small frame as the dachshund, and Australians know them as sausage dogs — the long-bodied, short-legged characters whose silhouette is unmistakable at any dog park. Wikipedia’s open breed reference traces the dachshund to 16th-century Germany, where it was bred to dig badgers from their setts, a … Read more
Ella Bruccoleri is the rare actor who can go from a nun’s wimple to a Paddington movie to a Regency ballroom without breaking stride. The North Yorkshire-born performer trained at the Oxford School of Drama, a detail recorded in The Ludwig Casebook’s performer profile, before finding wide audiences as Sister Frances in BBC One’s Call … Read more
Few actors have stayed in front of a camera for as long as Dennis Quaid — the Houston-born performer who has moved between blockbusters and independent dramas for nearly five decades. Born on April 9, 1954, according to his Golden Globes biography, he is also the younger brother of actor Randy Quaid, a detail his … Read more
Anyone who has searched Mira Nair’s name and still wondered about her religion or marriage order knows the gap: her career is richly documented, but chunks of her personal history are not. This profile sorts the sourced record — born 15 October 1957 in Odisha, educated at Delhi University and Harvard, honored at Cannes and … Read more
Felix Auger-Aliassime’s first-round retirement from the 2026 Australian Open due to cramps made him the first Top 8 seed to exit the tournament despite his No. 5 world ranking. Here’s what happened, why the timing raised questions, and where his season goes from here. Age: 26 (born August 8, 2000) · Height: 193 cm (6’4″) … Read more
There aren’t many spy franchises where the hero spends the first film not knowing his own name — yet that premise carried the Jason Bourne series through five movies and $1.6 billion at the box office. Figuring out the cast, order, and future takes sorting, but the facts are cleaner than the headlines suggest. Total … Read more