What kind of mandate does a landslide election victory earn when the nation’s vote is paradoxically almost evenly divided?

The extension of the North West Shelf gas project underscores the urgent need for nationally legislated plans for climate resilience and adaptation ...

A reflection on how early-life trauma might not just prepare us to cope with danger and anguish but attract us to it ...

A new album of beautifully tender, mildly psychedelic lo-fi songs from the Newcastle musician also known as Romy Church The codified e4444e shortens himself to e4 for brevity but in real life he is ...

Ken Haley is a Walkley Award–winning journalist and author of The One That Got Away: Travelling in the Time of Covid.

The 70-year-old author revisits the south-west Victorian town where, half a century ago, he was a cub reporter at The ...

Low-budget Australian New Wave throwbacks The Surfer and Dangerous Animals deliver dark stories of violent parochialism on ...

In their 20s, some of the cast of reality TV show The Valley (streaming on Hayu), worked as waiters at SUR, a dusty, faux-glamorous West Hollywood bar and restaurant where their consistently ...

When Kevin Rudd was returned to the leadership of the Labor Party, quite a lot of voters were pleased. This was gratifying to the party chieftains, but the person they watched most anxiously was not ...

One of the earliest organised viewings of the penguin parade, in the 1920s, Phillip Island, Victoria. © AAP Image/Phillip Island Nature Park Manning Clark, Phillip ...

In an increasingly toxic online world, resistance might be less engagement with social media and more with friends and family As the world feels more dystopian by the day, I’ve been thinking a lot ...