A new Australian novelist skewers her nation’s familial fault lines, while a veteran British writer skewers his whole damn country ...

It is hard to know who we are. The dead have gone from us; that much is true. That body I watched those years ago in Barton ...

Frank Magree is a self-described padel entrepreneur and enthusiast from Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. He had tennis lessons as a child, but as he got older he found he was looking for an ...

A personal reflection on Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, 30 years after its drug-fuelled repugnance and ‘Cool Britannia’ sheen ...

The Liberals planning to bring down their first female leader are aware of the optics, but are more afraid of plunging ...

Body-horror auteur David Cronenberg returned to favoured themes in 2024, in a film unsentimentally focused centred on grief ...

2025: With Australia’s political institutions being key to its prosperity, do we require a form of conservative radicalism to preserve them? When I proposed the title for this talk to the ABC, I was ...

Wahidullah Waissi, Australian ambassador for Afghanistan, at the G7+ Ministerial Meeting in Dili, Timor-Leste, April 2025 As Taliban consular officers are permitted to enter Germany, attention turns ...

A key architect of the corruption commission calls for its head to resign after the latest controversy The commissioner of the two-year-old National Anti-Corruption Commission, Paul Brereton, has ...

Concern about the welfare of AI has got ahead of convincingly arguing it can become conscious Sometimes a question is a doorway. You are just standing there idly wondering Where did language come from ...

There is little I can add to this searing, stunning open letter, lest I be guilty of trying to summarise it myself. But it is rather unfortunate that the people who most need to read it are the people ...

Making sense of a new reality and the return of power politics – a Quarterly Essay extract For almost a decade now, the world’s two most powerful countries have been competing over which of them will ...