June 10, 2013 Alan Moir, The Sydney Morning Herald's political cartoonist, sketches the political unreality.

June 10, 2013 Moby Dick's descendants are in trouble. Sperm whales are failing to recover from whaling in Australia, 30 years after the great predators were last harpooned.

June 10, 2013 A potpourri of Australian women and men have received Queen's Birthday honours.

June 10, 2013 Major floods will occur more frequently in many parts of the world, including Australia, as the planet warms due to climate change, exposing millions more people to the threat, scientific modelling has found.

June 10, 2013 Jill Ker Conway is one of two people receiving this country's highest honour, being appointed Companion in the general division of the Order of Australia.

June 10, 2013 A unique drama therapy program encourages refugee students to share their stories, helping to liberate them from the burden of traumatic memories.

June 10, 2013 It's not every day that a cook whips up 17,000 bread and butter puddings. But the founder of food rescue service OzHarvest, Ronni Kahn, turned her hands to the task after taking a call from a company that had 3000 litres of surplus cream.

June 10, 2013 A permanent ban on synthetic drugs is now on the national agenda, with NSW and Victoria both urging the federal government to outlaw the products across the country.

June 10, 2013 Remember gobbling up properties on the Monopoly board, and driving your opponents to bankruptcy? So well known is the board game's keynote phrase, ''Go directly to Jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200'', it has become shorthand for a situation of utter loss.

June 9, 2013 COMPANION (AC) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION