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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Considering the definitive list of 100 best Australian books, Peter Craven surveys the masterpieces, forgotten classics and literary oddities that make choosing the nation's greatest works both an ...

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

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 ...