In the tradition of Australian crime dramas about fatherless young men, the writer-director’s debut feature is a prison film ...
One Nation’s Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce have both had telling moments lately, revealing how they’re handling increased ...
Christopher Nolan’s film is big on virtue and righteous violence, but fails the poem’s complexities of what the beleaguered ...
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The Albanese government is toughening its stance against modern slavery. But there’s a whole other story in what it’s not doing, why not, and for what is, why now.
How the Australian screenwriter of ‘Poor Things’, who cut his teeth on shows such as ‘The Secret Life of Us’, earnt his ...
The Oscar-nominated postwar story of an autocratic immigrant architect in the US unwittingly mirrors Donald Trump’s edict on ...
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich used the word “magnificent” to describe Olga Tokarczuk’s work. Tokarczuk is the Polish ...
The meeting had been in progress for five hours when Conrad Black strode into Kerry Packer’s sumptuous suite at the Savoy. It was June 1991 and Packer was in England to play polo. Between chukkas, he ...
At the beginning of lockdown, seeking reassurance that the coronavirus, while clearly sub-optimal, was not necessarily an ...
Themed around ‘Ceremony’, the NGA exhibition provides a moving examination of what it means to be Indigenous in 2022 ...