Among Susan Hampton’s memorable poems from the late 1970s are two that explore different stages of her life. “Stockton” is about time spent with her grandmother...
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...
When I took up a new academic position in July 2021, universities across Australia were still dealing with the collapse in international student numbers caused by...
Chasuble: Your brother Ernest dead?Jack: Quite dead.Miss Prism: What a lesson for him! I trust he will profit from it.— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being...
Gabriële Buffet met Francis Picabia on a warm autumn evening in Verseilles in 1908. She was a gifted musician, he a successful painter like Gabriële’s brother...
Many years before he tried, and failed, to save the Victorian Liberal Party from itself, John Pesutto was a first-time staffer in Canberra with a misspelled...
“This is an Australian industry that’s been developed here, and the government doesn’t seem to recognise that,” says Richard McIndoe, chairman and founder of Edge Zero,...
In their bestselling book Abundance American journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that rich countries can be much richer. Their citizens can be healthier, their...
Australia’s government and opposition stand in different places on the United States’ attack on Iran. The Albanese government’s first response was to call for “de-escalation, dialogue...
Addressing the National Press Club on Wednesday, treasurer Jim Chalmers acknowledged the presence of a slew of ministerial colleagues, a couple of key appointees — productivity...