The extension of the North West Shelf gas project underscores the urgent need for nationally legislated plans for climate ...

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 ...

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 ...

In their 20s, some of the cast of reality TV show The Valley (streaming on Hayu), worked as waiters at SUR, a dusty, faux-glamorous West Hollywood bar and restaurant where their consistently ...

A new album of beautifully tender, mildly psychedelic lo-fi songs from the Newcastle musician also known as Romy Church The codified e4444e shortens himself to e4 for brevity but in real life he is ...

The 70-year-old author revisits the south-west Victorian town where, half a century ago, he was a cub reporter at The ...

Musician Warren Ellis visits the animal sanctuary he helped establish in southern Sumatra for a documentary directed by ...

An Australian Antarctic expedition researching melting ice shelves and ocean currents has found phytoplankton in the depths ...

When Kevin Rudd was returned to the leadership of the Labor Party, quite a lot of voters were pleased. This was gratifying to the party chieftains, but the person they watched most anxiously was not ...