Kehlmann depicts choices made in the grimmest of circumstances, sometimes in the name of art. His central figure is G.W. (Georg Wilhelm) Pabst, the Austrian-born filmmaker probably best known for ...

A leaked transcript of a Liberal Women’s Council meeting highlights the challenges facing Sussan Ley over women’s representation ...

In The Shrouds, David Cronenberg meditates on grief, death, technology and the erotic allure of conspiracy ...

For well over a decade, Australian policy-makers, journalists and commentators have been absorbed by the question of whether governments have the capacity for significant reform. Can they deliver the ...

It takes something for a prime minister with a majority of 156 to contrive a parliamentary defeat. But that was Sir Keir Starmer’s singular achievement this week. Or it would have been, had he not ...

The idea that the world needs more babies is fast becoming an orthodoxy. Unless something changes soon, say the pro-natalists, human populations both national and global will decline rapidly, with ...

Apple, the world’s leading manufacturer, epitomises the futility of the US–China tariff wars. Having sailed close to the financial wind in its first iteration, Apple Computer Company (founded by two ...

So begins Robert Garland’s rollicking excursion into death in the ancient world. In What to Expect When You’re Dead, the professor emeritus of classics at New York’s Colgate University ranges over 100 ...

Sussan Ley’s choice of Kerrynne Liddle as shadow Indigenous Australians minister symbolises her resolve to renew and moderate the parliamentary Liberal Party. Liddle evinces sobriety and worldly ...

Books & arts Empire of the southern seas Alessandro Antonello 27 May 2025 Australia is better seen as a vast archipelago, according to a new exploration of its iciest reaches ...

Francesca Dominello is a Lecturer in the Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University and co-author of The Family in Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Sonya Willis is a Lecturer in the Macquarie ...

Wealthy families cycle from rags to riches and back again within three generations — or so goes the old saying. But that hasn’t been the case for that uniquely Australian dynasty, the Packers, whose ...