Reflecting on the self-mythologising and self-destruction of Hunter S. Thompson, 20 years since his death ...

Almost 25 years after the September 11 attacks prompted rapid changes to Australia’s terrorism laws, the definition of what a terrorist act actually is now faces interrogation ...

The focus of the government’s reform roundtable has morphed from “productivity” to “economic reform”, but there’s been no change to its overarching question: what comes next?

Navigating the through line between a recent home invasion and a 1988 alien attack One morning last month I was woken by what I thought was a bomb or an earthquake. It was, rather, several bottles of ...

The government has indicated Australia’s recognition of Palestine is imminent, as famine in Gaza forces the international community to act ...

Wind farm near Albany, Western Australia / CC BY-SA 2.5 The government’s climate-action agenda has its predictable detractors, but the current decentralised approach is risking a fall in wider public ...

What might be needed to convince Türkiye to clear the way for an Australia–Pacific partnership to host the COP31 climate summit?

Inside Sussan Ley’s mighty fight to modernise the Liberals Inside the Liberal Party, it’s already ugly. But Sussan Ley has won the first round. Just over a week before yesterday’s National Press Club ...

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 ...

Its one-liners are firmly entrenched in the national lexicon, but, a quarter of a century later, what does the classic film tell us about Australia?

I re-watched Whiplash the other day. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a terrific, morally indefensible movie about a music teacher who pushes a young jazz drummer to greatness. Its unusual central message ...

By Monday morning, Northern Territory Police and its association (the NTPA) had a version of events they hoped would explain why officers had to shoot and kill 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker in his ...