Brittany Higgins chose not to watch the full bench of the Federal Court hand down its ruling on Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation appeal on the morning of December 3. She’d had enough of listening, yet ...

The Senate’s year-long inquiry into university governance has come to an end with the release of its final report. With the sector in crisis, the inquiry’s public hearings were often highly robust ...

As Brittany Higgins faces the irony that she and her attacker will likely both be bankrupted, her inner circle reflects on how her evidence decided Bruce Lehrmann’s latest appeal.

This year marked 50 years since parliament passed the Whitlam government’s Australia Council Act 1975. Whitlam’s cultural ...

A three-week journey following Ernest Shackleton’s epic voyage to save his crew is a powerful experience of the most remote ...

The Saturday Paper ’s quick crossword is compiled by Liam Runnalls (LR), who also sets the weekend cryptic. Requiring less lateral thinking than the cryptic, and less general knowledge than the quiz, ...

The new National Children’s Commissioner cites among her top concerns an increasingly draconian criminal justice system and improvements to the youth social media ban.

ANALYSIS: Having finally persuaded most voters that it is the better economic manager, Labor is well placed to pursue an obvious solution to the problems to come.

Last year, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer left the United States to settle in Australia. This is the story of why.

In the tradition of the late, great Mungo MacCallum, LR tries to infuse his puzzles with humour, wordplay and poetry to give readers plenty of “Aha!” moments. They will be accessible, but always with ...