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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...