ANALYSIS: Murray Watt’s environmental reforms will do little to protect the environment and a lot to benefit big business.

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Essays are easy. Fiction is hard,” says British writer Zadie Smith in an interview reproduced in Dead and Alive, her fourth ...

Pinchgut Opera’s new realisation of Handel’s Messiah strips it back to its first scoring in 1742 – and it is an undiluted joy ...

The latest iteration of the Marrakech International Film Festival – the Arab world’s most important – highlights the triumphs ...

This week the Victorian government passed youth crime laws that will see children face adult courts and sentencing – reforms ...

Michael G. Smith | served 34 years in the Australian military. Major-General Smith AO is a founding member of the Australian Peace and Security Forum, and worked for the United Nations in Libya, ...

Calls grow for the resignation of  UTS vice-chancellor Andrew Parfitt, who knew of the KPMG-produced list targeting ‘underperforming’ staff even as his office denied it existed.

Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure ...

Restructures across all levels of arts funding have deprived institutions of money and led some to scale back their ambitions or even close.

In the tradition of the late, great Mungo MacCallum, LR tries to infuse his puzzles with humour, wordplay and poetry to give readers plenty of “Aha!” moments. They will be accessible, but always with ...

Watching young cricket players on a pitch close to home, the author is visited by memories that flow from the action.