Almost 25 years after the September 11 attacks prompted rapid changes to Australia’s terrorism laws, the definition of what a terrorist act actually is now faces interrogation ...

The focus of the government’s reform roundtable has morphed from “productivity” to “economic reform”, but there’s been no change to its overarching question: what comes next?

One morning last month I was woken by what I thought was a bomb or an earthquake. It was, rather, several bottles of liquor that had been smashed upon our porch and front door: the opening act of a ...

Wind farm near Albany, Western Australia / CC BY-SA 2.5 The government’s climate-action agenda has its predictable detractors, but the current decentralised approach is risking a fall in wider public ...

The government has indicated Australia’s recognition of Palestine is imminent, as famine in Gaza forces the international community to act ...

A dread-infused debut novel focuses on kids at a party on a sprawling New England property, all told in a dreamlike ...

A cancer diagnosis delivers a passion for weightlifting as a means of reordering how to inhabit one’s body and revel in its strength Apparently, it’s not uncommon for competitors to lose control of ...

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 ...

Installation view of Sally Gabori’s Dibirdibi Country at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. Photographs by Garry Sommerfeld, NGV The Colour of Memory, an exhibition a decade after the Aboriginal ...

There’s nothing subtle about Ari Aster’s unruly new epic, Eddington. Not the film’s poster featuring multiple buffalo falling off a cliff into an abyss, not its tagline “Hindsight is 2020”, and ...

A writing prize helped the author realise his dream of buying a house – until he realised he was dreaming ...