The shocking attack on Helen Haines adds weight to warnings that our political discourse is being supercharged by online hate ...

Three forces are reshaping Asia and Australia’s place in it: the decline of one empire, the rise of another, and the ...

Beware the politician who mentions the national interest when changing a decision, and more so when they claim full credit ...

In a recent major article in The Sydney Morning Herald, leading journalist Peter Hartcher wrote that for Australia to have “early access to future frontier AI tools” it would need to persuade AI ...

Confronting violence and intense sex scenes permeate Marlon James’s latest, lengthy novel, a compelling look at homophobia in Jamaica In one of his more notorious essays, Norman Mailer conflated the ...

While our bookshelves heave with military mythology, where are the Australian novels examining our participation in modern conflicts, including our longest war? New “All wars are fought twice, the ...

Inspired by a Chekhov story, the author’s slender volume explores her separation during the Covid lockdowns from her mother, ...

In the decades after Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin died in 1954, the literary prize she generously funded from her estate put handy cash into the pockets of many male Australian writers, or, to be ...

A Shakespearean first folio and handwritten letters from Einstein and Newton make David Walsh’s new library unusually quiet for the brash Mona gallery New The first impression, as you enter, is that ...

Mark your calendar. We will look back on this week as the moment moral leadership turned the electoral contest on its head. In the space of 24 hours, Western Australian Liberal frontbencher Andrew ...