Was 2023 – beyond the referendum calamity – a year of government timidity or a demonstration of its ability to keep the ...
One Nation’s Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce have both had telling moments lately, revealing how they’re handling increased ...
The unmistakeable bassline of the Talking Heads song “Psycho Killer” opens French director Rebecca Zlotowski’s latest film, which premiered in competition at Cannes last year. It’s a neat precursor of ...
Christopher Nolan’s film is big on virtue and righteous violence, but fails the poem’s complexities of what the beleaguered ...
2025: With Australia’s political institutions being key to its prosperity, do we require a form of conservative radicalism to preserve them? When I proposed the title for this talk to the ABC, I was ...
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The Albanese government is toughening legislation against modern slavery, but what it’s leaving out is telling about international relations ...
Lucas Schaefer and Rita Bullwinkel deliver debut fiction that populates the American boxing novel with weirdos and teenage ...
In the tradition of Australian crime dramas about fatherless young men, the writer-director’s debut feature is a prison film ...
How the Australian screenwriter of ‘Poor Things’, who cut his teeth on shows such as ‘The Secret Life of Us’, earnt his ...