Try to think of Australia without immediately envisioning the Sydney Opera House. It’s hard, right?That’s because this striking masterpiece under the Sydney Harbour Bridge has become renowned as a ...

Saying that the Sydney Opera House is a well-known icon of Australia is kind of like saying the Amazon is a creek. The building, which turns 50 years old on October 20, has been given a cultural value ...

It’s been more than 450 years since a monarch ruled in Rome. But now, in the senate and the streets, the forum and the marketplace, the word ‘king’ is being whispered again. Julius Caesar has ...

Commemorative occasions are often draped in fatty platitudes. Within such platitudes lie excuses and apologies. People are celebrated after the fact, not for their faults but for their virtues. It’s ...