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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...