Narooma is on the traditional lands of the Yuin people. It’s 4.5 hours south of Sydney and three hours from Canberra. I live in tiny Tilba, 15 minutes away, and I go to Narooma most days to teach yoga, swim or walk. It’s known for Narooma Oyster festival (2-5 May 2025), which showcases the famous…
Jon Rahm, Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka are among the golfers in danger of missing the cut at the 2025 Masters. Here’s the latest updates on second-round action at Augusta. Fred Couples leans on experience for a strong start at the Masters With smart course management and vintage touch, Fred Couples posts a solid opening…
Kate Grenville crouches down on a rock on Sydney’s lower north shore, feet bare, next to a Cammeraygal engraving of a whale. The writer is careful not to trespass on the art. “You can just see the little figure,” she says, pointing to a faint outline of a mysterious tiny human with outstretched arms and…
SlitherStephen S. HallGrand Central Publishing, $30 Snakes don’t often get to be the protagonists. From the biblical tempter in the Garden of Eden to the eponymous snakes on a plane, your stereotypical serpent often gets cast as a villain — cunning, treacherous, cruel, deadly. But human views of snakes are full of contradictions. In mythology,…
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Two couples are taking the government to court over its failure to legalise humanist marriage in England and Wales five years after a ruling that the lack of recognition was discriminatory. Engaged couples Terri O’Sullivan and Edd Berrill, from Coventry, and Nicole Shasha and Rory Booth, from Leicester, are preparing to go to court in…