Melbourne Theatre Company’s jubilant musical adaptation of Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career breathes new life and vibrancy into an Australian classic.

How does a writer choose their subject matter? Haruki Murakami tends to give an honest answer. “There are many things I like, ...

By insisting that Australia’s housing crisis is all about supply, governments are ignoring the decades-long trend of shrinking households, which is also contributing to social isolation.

As the National Anti-Corruption Commission continues to face criticism over its decision-making, new details have emerged ...

Despite increasing restrictions on their protest, thousands have gathered at the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle to ...

These are the smells that didn’t make me want to vomit: the moments after rain, cut grass, whatever gas is exhaled by a Bundaberg ginger beer’s bubbles. That is all.

Māori protests over Treaty of Waitangi. Israel and Hezbollah closer to ceasefire deal. Trump’s ‘hand grenade’ picks.

Gina Rinehart’s celebration of Donald Trump’s victory has focused attention on her cultivation of a right-wing network with ...

The biggest electoral reforms in 40 years have been criticised as a plot to entrench the two-party system, which would ...

At the end of a Deborah Levy essay on Freud and the Viennese Kaffeehaus is an uncanny image of menace – “There will for ever ...

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 ...

NewSouth’s latest Best Australian Science Writing collection opens with a foreword by Corey Tutt. A Kamilaroi man and the founder of Deadly Science, which provides STEM resources to remote schools, ...