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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Gail Jones’s eleventh novel, The Name of the Sister, opens with a freelance journalist, Angie, watching a catalogue of miseries on the evening news. Her attention is caught by two successive items ...

But there’s something else to consider. Like its eponymous subject, a novel written by two sisters is, in its way, groundbreaking. But is it really a novel? When I started writing them, novels were ...

Right now, according to British political theorist Jonathan White, the future seems very close. Our time horizon is closing in. Crises press in on us, shadowing contemporary politics with an “air of ...

A government falls in Tasmania as debate redoubles over a costly AFL-imposed stadium ...

Too often tales of exploration are told only from a whitefella perspective. But as this story of a roving zoologist reveals, “the observed” were observing closely when the American–Australian ...