“Oh, don’t deceive me! Oh, never leave me!How could you use a poor maiden so?” Songs of betrayal are nothing new. From the troubadours of the...
Enough time has passed now for us to assess with less passion the breaches of parliamentary convention associated with the events leading up to the Whitlam...
“I had a strange feeling today that we’d entered a true crime tale and it was unclear who the author was,” write Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper...
Delegates and other participants arriving in the northeastern Brazilian port of Belém for the UN’s COP30 climate conference have been greeted by suitably forest-themed posters declaring...
Alison Bechdel is famous for inventing the “Bechdel Test,” a sarcastic way of assessing whether a film is non-sexist — it must contain at least one...
Tuesday this week was a very good day for Democrats and a very bad day for both MAGA and the oligarchy. If I were a properly...
While the Coalition was combusting over climate change and energy policy on Thursday, treasurer Jim Chalmers went to visit his alma mater, the Australian National University,...
In the first Asian tour of his second presidency, Donald Trump attracted higher than ever levels of praise, sycophancy and financial pledges from the region’s leaders....
In the first Asian tour of his second presidency, Donald Trump attracted higher than ever levels of praise, sycophancy and financial pledges from the region’s leaders....
In recent weeks, two new Australian films have quietly called for — and deserved — our attention. They are Kangaroo (at least the third film with...