The very right-wing Peter Dutton managed to hold the outfit together by sticking with the Morrison government’s net-zero-by-2050 pledge but proposing to achieve it via nuclear energy. The beauty of ...

Dykes to Watch Out For, a widely syndicated strip cartoon series, ran from 1987 to 2008, ending only after Bechdel achieved ...

I had a strange feeling today that we’d entered a true crime tale and it was unclear who the author was,” write Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein in The Mushroom Tapes, one of many ...

Tuesday this week was a very good day for Democrats and a very bad day for both MAGA and the oligarchy. If I were a properly house-trained pundit, I would immediately follow that statement by throwing ...

Last week Donald Trump used social media to make a splash. Nothing unusual about that, except that this time the American president was announcing his country would resume testing nuclear weapons.

In recent weeks, two new Australian films have quietly called for — and deserved — our attention. They are Kangaroo (at least the third film with that title in our cinema history) and The Travellers, ...

For the shrinking fraction of the public that is even dimly aware of it, the image of psychoanalysis tends to be tarnished. Some of the lost lustre is the patina of age, the movement often viewed as a ...

Books & arts Authors of their own lives? Marian Quartly 23 September 2025 How children and fathers experienced twentieth-century Australia ...

International Glass half full in Washington Michael Jacobs 27 April 2025 America played a less destructive role than feared at last week’s spring meetings of the World Bank and the IMF International ...

Does Australia need more federal politicians? Special minister of state Don Farrell (and hence prime minister Anthony Albanese) seems to think so. Farrell included the idea in the terms of reference ...