If writing always made sense to the writer, it wouldn’t be nearly as interesting,” says journalist Susan Orlean ...

Friendship is having a moment. Connoisseurs of illustrious children’s television shows like K-Pop Demon Hunters or Frozen will have noticed that Prince Charming has been usurped by Girl Gangs.

Books & arts A day with Tom Stoppard and his biographer Glyn Davis 30 November 2025 On the death of the playwright this weekend, a brief memory ...

National affairs Growing bananas at the South Pole Stephen Wilks 2 October 2025 The great tariff clash shows how the Coalition manages to survive deep differences of ...

“I cannot live with You —” goes Emily Dickinson’s poem. “It would be Life —/ And Life is over there —/ Behind the Shelf.” Once upon a time many Australian homes had the books of Patrick White out ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

For almost a decade the Coalition government insisted the states and territories had sole responsibility for ensuring that Australians on the lowest incomes had a place to call home. Even at the ...

Labor’s complex relationship with Palestine — its in-principle support for a Palestinian state versus its ties to an Israel of the party’s imagination that no longer exists — has been decades in the ...

Over the past six months, from Hobart to Broome and Adelaide to Thursday Island, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have reclaimed the movement towards constitutional recognition at twelve ...

THE story of the devastation of the NSW Labor Party in 2011 begins on the night of one of its more miraculous victories. On Saturday 24 March 2007, the premier, Morris Iemma – whose government had ...

Moree might be booming thanks to cotton and other crops, but many of the benefits haven’t yet reached the local Aboriginal people, the Kamilaroi, who comprise at least a fifth of its 9000 people.

When the creator of HBO’s hit TV drama Succession announced in February that the show’s fourth series would be its last, he dropped a tantalising caveat. The portrayal of a family patriarch living out ...