Kehlmann depicts choices made in the grimmest of circumstances, sometimes in the name of art. His central figure is G.W. (Georg Wilhelm) Pabst, the Austrian-born filmmaker probably best known for ...

A leaked transcript of a Liberal Women’s Council meeting highlights the challenges facing Sussan Ley over women’s representation ...

In The Shrouds, David Cronenberg meditates on grief, death, technology and the erotic allure of conspiracy ...

For well over a decade, Australian policy-makers, journalists and commentators have been absorbed by the question of whether governments have the capacity for significant reform. Can they deliver the ...

It takes something for a prime minister with a majority of 156 to contrive a parliamentary defeat. But that was Sir Keir Starmer’s singular achievement this week. Or it would have been, had he not ...

Apple, the world’s leading manufacturer, epitomises the futility of the US–China tariff wars. Having sailed close to the financial wind in its first iteration, Apple Computer Company (founded by two ...

Books & arts Empire of the southern seas Alessandro Antonello 27 May 2025 Australia is better seen as a vast archipelago, according to a new exploration of its iciest reaches ...

Francesca Dominello is a Lecturer in the Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University and co-author of The Family in Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Sonya Willis is a Lecturer in the Macquarie ...

Outlining his government’s “positive and ambitious agenda” at the National Press Club last week, Anthony Albanese reiterated a series of health policy commitments made during the election campaign: ...

Gail Jones’s eleventh novel, The Name of the Sister, opens with a freelance journalist, Angie, watching a catalogue of miseries on the evening news. Her attention is caught by two successive items ...

But there’s something else to consider. Like its eponymous subject, a novel written by two sisters is, in its way, groundbreaking. But is it really a novel? When I started writing them, novels were ...