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 ...

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

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

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

Getting some face time with a petulant president who holds a grudge is a challenge for many world leaders, not just Albanese ...

The strange tale of Vivian Maier has been well rehearsed by now. It has been the subject of countless articles, innumerable gallery programs, two documentaries and at least one court case. For those ...

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

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 ...

Judith Brett’s and Amanda Lohrey’s comments on the ‘misogyny’ speech by Julia Gillard (‘They Had It Coming’ and ‘A Matter of Context’, November) were both necessary and timely. They pointed out the ...

There’s a reason why the previous US administration, in which Joe Biden served as vice president, had stopped short of laying charges. Matthew Miller, an official in Barack Obama’s Department of ...

Somebody told me that Burkhard Augustin Hase, the young German magician who has married an Australian and come to live in Melbourne, was doing a few gigs at the Butterfly Club next door to South ...

Professor Deborah Brennan works at the University of New South Wales' Social Policy Research Centre. She is one of Australia’s leading researchers in comparative social policy, early childhood ...