Although bush-balladry may be very Australian, it has many antecedents: partly Irish and Scottish songs, partly Rudyard Kipling.

Meretz MK Nitzan Horowitz isn’t just Israel’s only openly gay parliamentarian, he’s the Middle East’s only openly gay parliamentarian (though he was preceded in that role by Uzi Even, who broke that particular rainbow ceiling in 2002).

The article was written to demystify the mechanics of the internal combustion engine.

Occasionally at a bush dance, when the elderly folk were conspicuous by their absence, the M.C. would throw a jazz-garter on the floor, point at some lucky fellow, and shout, 'You have ten seconds to find its mate. A packet of cigarettes if you do'. The girls would squeal and giggle and start running; […]