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, ...

Books & arts Certain ideas of France Anne Freadman 16 September 2025 Gertrude Stein’s latest biographer continues the debate about her wartime activities ...

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 ...

Books & arts Cross-class coupling Sara Dowse 13 June 2024 What can cross-class relationships tell us about Australia’s semi-visible inequalities? Books & arts Injured instincts Sara Dowse 12 May 2023 ...

International Out of the woodchipper Michael Jacobs 13 March 2025 At least one of its rivals will be rubbing its hands at Washington’s retreat from foreign aid and international institutions ...

Books & arts A post-American world Graeme Dobell 22 July 2025 The Australian flag faces the American eagle in the new world disorder Books & arts The many meanings of Melanesia Graeme Dobell 25 March ...

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 ...