When Sussan Ley selected her frontbench in May, she replaced Jacinta Nampijinpa Price as shadow Indigenous Australians minister with Kerrynne Liddle. The choice was a symbolic...
Robert Irwin’s title, The Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting, overdoes it, but this book is certainly not one for stamp collectors. They are warned off in...
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...
Women in the Liberal Party are sick of the politics of there-there. They’ve had enough of being told — for generations — that their role is...
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...