In his enveloping, tactile Grand Tour (currently in cinemas), Portuguese director Miguel Gomes takes us on a hectic yet leisurely adventure in storytelling that blurs boundaries...
When another Newspoll dropped this week (51–49 in the Coalition’s favour, again) the Australian mentioned a change in how its pollsters will be estimating two-party-preferred figures...
Western Australia’s position as the metronome of Australian electoral politics is set to end in three weeks’ time. Since 1974, Labor and the Coalition have held...
Despite its record longevity (or perhaps because of it), the Menzies government has never been short of critics, among the most prominent being the late author...
On Monday this week Britain’s Home Office released blurry footage of immigration officials in hi-vis vests escorting men from a bus to a plane. It was...
Johanna Ekström was a Swedish poet, fiction writer and visual artist who died at the early age of fifty-one after a melanoma was discovered in her...
“There are three rooms here in the Gran Café de Paris, each reserved for specific clientele,” declared Hashim, my bookish, puckish guide to Tangier and its...
The critically acclaimed Chinese-language film Black Dog, currently showing in Australian cinemas, tells the story of a man and a dog, a common subject in English-language...
Running through Anne Maxwell and Lucy Van’s new book, Australian Women’s Historical Photography, is the word “freedom,” sometimes used by the authors and sometimes by the...
If you want to understand the first few weeks of the second Trump administration, you should listen to what Steve Bannon told PBS’s “Frontline” in 2019:...