Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Few world events are as simultaneously hilarious and ...

Humans are quite good at eradicating unwanted species when they set their mind to it. Sometimes, they do it without even trying. But, every once in a while, an animal proves more wily than anticipated ...

“I have seen enough of the horrors of war, and want peace. War has made me a socialist and a pacifist,” announced Gallipoli veteran and Victoria Cross winner, Hugo Throssell, on Peace Day in 1919.

Patrick Forbes is part of a military family with a legacy that stretches back to the Napoleonic Wars. Together with his father Brigadier Alexander Forbes and brother Lieutenant Jim Forbes, they have a ...

ANZAC Day, Australia’s April 25 public holiday, is always a spectacle of militarist reaction and warmongering. The event marks the disastrous 1915 landing of British, Australian and New Zealand troops ...