Some people may think it’s nice to listen to music with their plants. But is there any truth to the idea that certain music boosts plant growth?

The Broad Bean Sermon, while not his best-known poem, shows why Les Murray is considered by some to be Australia’s preeminent poet.

It’s easy to say now that paying the Vikings to go away ‘didn’t work’. But this obscures the fact paying off one Viking band didn’t ensure another would stop coming.

The federal government is betting on tax incentives and private capital to drive growth, but questions remain over costs, oversight and who benefits.