I promptly called William (not his real name, et cetera). The place should never have been listed, he explained, as it was ...

A government that orders a review into how its board members are appointed could be seen as having integrity, but one that ...

A superconducting quantum computing device at the Digital China Summit in Fuzhou, China, April 2025. © Lyu Ming / China News Service / VCG via Getty Images What ...

From classroom to cabinet room, the gambling industry in Australia is deeply entrenched A few weeks ago, gambling reform advocate Reverend Tim Costello was approached at an event by a young man in a ...

Was something great lost during the former Talking Heads frontman’s evolution from affected irony to chronic positivity? For a long time, David Byrne was an actor playing an imponderable version of ...

Norwegian director Joachim Trier delivers a bittersweet family drama, while Iranian Jafar Panahi’s latest asks uncomfortable questions about revenge Releasing in Australia on Boxing Day, a time of ...

A new story from the author of Wait Here, about a holiday with friends, a new relationship and a struggle with a liquor cabinet Trixie busts me at one in the morning. It’s still warm. I’m sitting ...

Monday nights at Melbourne’s Bennetts Lane successor are a masterclass in collaboration led by award-winning jazz pianist Andrea Keller Dinner’s done and I’m rummaging in the pantry, hoping to see ...

Landscape rehabilitation on the Yarra riverbank has united exotic and endemic species in a thoughtfully modern reflection of Country Can a single tree be more important than a whole art museum? The ...

The Thai-American author brilliantly comes to grips with the comedy and tragedy of life online in this collection of extraordinary stories I realised, as I read Rejection (Fourth Estate), that I’d ...

A guide for former prime ministers or the like, should they be tempted to revisit the colonial record First: Identify as white, preferably male. Who better to tell the story of dispossession than you?

Thinking through the lines of poetry, prose and drama that have most haunted the author inevitably brings him back to Shakespeare It’s weird the way words haunt you. At some stage when I was briefly ...