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 and Sarah Krasnostein in The Mushroom Tapes, one of many ...

Dykes to Watch Out For, a widely syndicated strip cartoon series, ran from 1987 to 2008, ending only after Bechdel achieved ...

Last week Donald Trump used social media to make a splash. Nothing unusual about that, except that this time the American president was announcing his country would resume testing nuclear weapons.

In recent weeks, two new Australian films have quietly called for — and deserved — our attention. They are Kangaroo (at least the third film with that title in our cinema history) and The Travellers, ...

For the shrinking fraction of the public that is even dimly aware of it, the image of psychoanalysis tends to be tarnished. Some of the lost lustre is the patina of age, the movement often viewed as a ...

By that time many of Hitler’s designated enemies — artists, writers and leftists, a good proportion of whom were Jewish — had sought refuge in France but now found themselves trapped there. Across the ...

The United States will NOT stand for this Global Green New Scam Tax on Shipping…” he declared on Truth Social. “We will not tolerate increased prices on American Consumers OR the creation of a Green ...

For a long time the “Australianness” depicted on Australian television was overwhelmingly white, foregrounding white voices, faces and stories, and failing to reflect the multicultural society ...

Does Australia need more federal politicians? Special minister of state Don Farrell (and hence prime minister Anthony Albanese) seems to think so. Farrell included the idea in the terms of reference ...

The movement for civil and human rights chronicled by historian Benjamin Nathans in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, was an important moment in the long and ...

This year’s awarding of the Nobel Prize for economics to Joel Mokyr is widely seen as a victory for history. But it might also help us understand the frustrations and desires — not to mention the ...

Labour was the first and greatest of modern social movements, revolutionary in its effects even when it pursued mere reformism, a melodrama of heroes and villains like any grand theatre, and so ...