What kind of mandate does a landslide election victory earn when the nation’s vote is paradoxically almost evenly divided?

A reflection on how early-life trauma might not just prepare us to cope with danger and anguish but attract us to it ...

Jonathan Safran Foer is a talented novelist with a gift for writing amusingly about serious issues. In Everything Is Illuminated (2003), he created a Ukrainian narrator, Alex, who describes in ...

The minimalist works of this Melbourne-based artist derive from her pursuit of the most authentic and primitive expression If there is a difference between Elizabeth Newman’s drawings and her ...

Low-budget Australian New Wave throwbacks The Surfer and Dangerous Animals deliver dark stories of violent parochialism on the coast ...

The former MP continues the proud Liberal tradition of politicising Anzac Day ...

The loyal women of the Liberal Party are willing to use “feminism” whenever and however it suits them ...

Peter Dutton puts himself on the wrong side of history every chance he gets ...

Michael Gibbons, Brodie Moles, Erica Fowler, Nathan Eagleton, Justine Mules, Craig Bird, Jonathon Griffin, Sharnie Whiting, Aaron Mullett, Tomas Bugg, Kirsty Lamb ...

Rodrigo Moreno’s transfixing drama ‘The Delinquents’, Molly Manning Walker’s unsentimental coming-of-age film ‘How to Have Sex’ and Spanish veteran Víctor Erice’s ‘Close Your Eyes’ were among the best ...

The outsourcing of government business has fundamentally changed how governments think about public policy – and their capacity to act in the public good Among the headlines Malcolm Turnbull’s ...