ANALYSIS: While a mining company’s scrapping of plans for a tailings dam in Tasmania’s Takayna rainforest is welcome, its ...

Amid another round of tinkering by the AFL rule-makers, the author finds he can no longer deny his optimism that his beloved ...

A party of independents is a contradiction in terms, but new donation laws may force teals and others to form a party to ...

The former Nationals leader has confirmed Gina Rinehart is among many ‘substantial supporters’ he has brought to the far-right party.

Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...

The philosopher Gaston Bachelard imagined the basement of a house as the realm of the irrational – the “dark entity” of the domestic space. It’s a notion Fiona Wright – a poet and essayist long ...

As the Albanese government refuses to be drawn on the legality of US–Israeli strikes on Iran, key advisers are seeking to frame the conflict in domestic terms.

Several fatalities stemming from supposedly ‘less-lethal’ police weapons are now the subject of coronial inquests, adding to pressure for tougher constraints on their use.

Beyond the headliners of this year’s French Film Festival are some treasures, including Jodie Foster in A Private Life and Lucile Hadžihalilović’s unsettling The Ice Tower.

Eva Hornung’s writing career seems to appear in two parts, forged by a name change. As Eva Sallis, she wrote the Vogel Literary Award-winning Hiam, along with four novels in the early 2000s. In 2009, ...

The discovery of alleged malpractice by an endometriosis specialist has sharpened calls for an action plan to protect sufferers, as recommended by a landmark inquiry last year.

I feel my chest begin to heave and I slide to the floor. What, I ask you, would anyone do? When it comes it’s an absurd baritone wail. Begging her to come back.” The author of Bring Back Yesterday is ...