Having chosen not to re-contest his federal seat of Moreton, Labor’s Graham Perrett returned to his first profession – ...

Getting some face time with a petulant president who holds a grudge is a challenge for many world leaders, not just Albanese ...

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

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

Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac (in limited release) blends a certain majestic wackiness with von Trier’s increasingly hackneyed desire to rub us the wrong way. The film pathologises the female orgasm – ...

Just a short drive from the Portuguese university town of Coimbra, in Vale de Canas, a sea of eucalypts extends to the horizon in all directions. The tallest tree in Europe sprouted here 120 years ago ...

Even after Peter Dutton’s culture-warring Liberal Party was soundly rejected by the electorate, some are pushing to double down on MAGA-style politicking How to explain the modern Liberal Party? There ...

If you are looking for signs of the apocalypse, you need look no further than High School Musical, the film franchise that began life as a Disney Channel telemovie in 2006. The first film was the most ...

His true name is nowhere recorded, nor his date of birth. Born in the Hunter Valley around 1833, he was known to his white employer simply as Jackey Jackey. A clever and skilful lad, he was ...