Where a perpetually bloated and red-faced Jax spent most of the first season berating Brittany for drinking too much, he’s ...

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

Accurate or not, Hirst’s words were powerful. They still are. They speak of a nation still looking for its “republican moment”, and still seeking new symbols, songs and laws, to replace an old ...

David Baker is a history and science writer who holds the world’s first PhD in Big History. He wrote the YouTube series Crash Course Big History, hosted by John and Hank Green.

Jane Rawson is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist who usually writes about the environment. Her most recent book is From the Wreck.

Alzheimer’s drives the narrative of Rachel Khong’s ‘Goodbye, Vitamin’ but it isn’t the novel’s focus ...

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 ...

If you think so, then the white goddess has a darker alter ego in her sister Dannii, an altogether more alarming figure – Parvati perhaps, her four arms flailing as she straddles a lion or tiger, her ...

The female-led blockbuster is a squandered chance to better represent women on screen Just about the first thing that Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) does upon her release from prison at the outset of ...

It was the place where Manning first began intuiting social class, a theme that would obsessively dominate his history of Australia, as it was the place in which he became aware that his solemn ...

The American comedian’s vulnerable and nuanced look at constant perception in the digital age Watching Bo Burnham’s new Netflix special during Melbourne’s fourth lockdown is an eerie experience. The ...

GetUp! (how people detest that little exclamation mark) grew slowly at first. From its initial campaign – warning Coalition senators that ordinary Australians would hold them to account after the ...