The anniversary of Peter Carey’s Booker-winning masterpiece prompts a revisit of the literature and cinema telling the most archetypical of Australian stories It is 25 years now since Peter Carey ...

Max Ogden is a lifelong unionist, including a career as an industrial officer at the ACTU between 1988 and 2000. He is the author of Long View From the Left.

The government’s climate-action agenda has its predictable detractors, but the current decentralised approach is risking a ...

Lena Dunham’s new rom-com series mines her life with her British musician husband, but the fun and froth gives way to an unremarkable story of trauma ...

What might be needed to convince Türkiye to clear the way for an Australia–Pacific partnership to host the COP31 climate summit?

A common critique of reality television is that it’s “fake”: scenarios are highly engineered and contestants act unnaturally because they know they’re being filmed. Canadian comedian-auteur Nathan ...

Kiti is a PALM worker, one of about 11,000 employed in meat processing on temporary visas under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme. PALM workers now make up almost a quarter of the ...

The end of Cosmos after 20 years is a blow to Australian science journalism, at a time when we desperately need its insights to counter misinformation ...

Lucas Schaefer and Rita Bullwinkel deliver debut fiction that populates the American boxing novel with weirdos and teenage girls Welcome to Terry Tucker’s Boxing Gym (est. 1984) – a hot tin shed in ...

The NSW Liberal Party has long been a cesspit of factional power games, with Tony Abbott’s hard right, Scott Morrison’s centre right, and the moderates, whose high-profile ranks have included Malcolm ...