When Mark Twain visited Melbourne in 1895, he discovered a population gripped by horse-racing fever. His account of the ...

Australia has repeatedly feared successive waves of migrants, from Chinese gold miners to Italian cane cutters and Vietnamese ...

Peter Malinauskas says voters gave him a mandate for MotoGP. But the costs and consequences emerged only after the election.

France’s riots have provoked outrage, but the violence should not obscure the grievances of young protesters. Neglected ...

At South Australia’s Sevenhill, Jesuit priest Brendan Kelly reflects on 175 years of faith, hardship and adaptation, and how ...

Castle Walls, billed as the first AI-generated television series, is spectacularly bad. But the real worry is that eventually, audiences might start getting used to this sort of thing.

Following the attack on Helen Haines, attention has turned to the rise in political violence. But new research suggests politicians’ responses to such attacks can deepen divisions and increase the ...

Eureka Street offers an alternative. It's less a magazine than a wide ranging conversation about the issues that matter in ...

The proposal to livestream Nidal Hasan’s execution provoked widespread outrage. Yet the willingness to turn a prisoner’s ...

Lists of books, Australian and international, are always a bit confounded because behind them there is always the spectre of the syllabus. That great critic Hugh Kenner sent up the academic version of ...

In the media, stories of people affected by government policies or institutional decisions often accompany reporting and commentary on those subjects. The story of a sad-faced woman and child who ...

THE nub of Jordan Harper’s new noir crime novel – centred in a dystopian Los Angeles, which he hails as ‘the real America’ – is summed up in the two epigraphs with which he introduces the story. The ...