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

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 ...

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 ...

Australia’s politicians are competing to cut immigration, treating refugees and families increasingly as numbers to be ...

Just north of Australia, hundreds of Indigenous Papuans have reportedly fled into the jungle as Indonesian military ...

And so I — observer converted / to participant — pause to let / the family pass so as not / to startle, worried as cars fire past, / watching the trial repeating / as the human-world raves / on and ...

These days mortgage holders wait for Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meetings with as much joy as children in a dental clinic reception. Last week’s interest rate rise is likely to be accompanied by ...

Renewed fighting in Tigray, the reported involvement of Eritrean troops and tensions over the Red Sea threaten to plunge the Horn of Africa into a wider conflict, even as millions struggle to recover ...