The NSW Liberal Party has long been a cesspit of factional power games, with Tony Abbott’s hard right, Scott Morrison’s centre right, and the moderates, whose high profile ranks have included Malcolm ...

Started by Stanley Kubrick and taken on by Steven Spielberg, the 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence has now ‘insinuated ...

What kind of mandate does a landslide election victory earn when the nation’s vote is paradoxically almost evenly divided?

Having chosen not to re-contest his federal seat of Moreton, Labor’s Graham Perrett returned to his first profession – ...

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A quizzical line from the author’s father has always reminded him of the importance of playfulness, whatever one’s age ...

Ken Haley is a Walkley Award–winning journalist and author of The One That Got Away: Travelling in the Time of Covid.

The North West Shelf Project’s Karratha Gas Plant at Murujuga Cultural Landscape in Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia. AAP Image/Supplied by Woodside Energy The extension of the North West Shelf gas ...

The English writer J.G. Ballard led a much less crowded life. In fact, it was a determinedly domestic one, and when Ballard became widowed very suddenly at the age of 34, he refused the offers of his ...

Low-budget Australian New Wave throwbacks The Surfer and Dangerous Animals deliver dark stories of violent parochialism on the coast A film about a ship’s captain who abducts women, lowers them into ...

It’s not a rare species, the New York Times bestseller that should never have been published. But this one isn’t hackneyed or ill-conceived: its author never conceived of it at all. So it’s easy to be ...

Scientist Delphine Lannuzel is angling her phone to show me the view from the back deck of the RSV Nuyina, Australia’s 160-metre-long orange and white icebreaker that doubles as a research vessel.