Labor has secured Coalition support for new powers to deport non-citizens, as it scrambles to pass a trio of migration bills ...

The Greens will wave through two Labor housing bills, ending a lengthy stand-off after attempting to pressure the Albanese ...

A controversial crackdown on misinformation on social media has been ditched by the federal government after widespread ...

In the first six months of the National Anti-Corruption Commission’s operation, the body’s key governance officer became so “alarmed” at the behaviour of executives that she decided to leave the ...

After a glass or two of wine at a party in Adelaide last year, Don Farrell recounted a meeting with Simon Holmes à Court. Farrell told a small group how the Climate 200 convenor had approached him to ...

This week Alan Belford Jones, Australia’s most successful broadcaster and famed former Wallabies rugby coach, was arrested and charged with 26 offences, including aggravated indecent assault, against ...

In the introduction to Miles Franklin’s 1901 debut, My Brilliant Career, the character of Sybylla Melvyn wants to set expectations. This is not a romance, she tells us. It’s not a novel, either. Just ...

Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...

How does a writer choose their subject matter? Haruki Murakami tends to give an honest answer. “There are many things I like,” he told The New Yorker in 2019. “I like wells. I like refrigerators. I ...

In a rare display of unanimity, politicians, economists, journalists and assorted commentators all seem to agree that the solution to the present housing crisis is to increase supply. There might be ...

In the recent, decade-long machinations around Aboriginal affairs, closing the gap and national debates on direct lines for First Nations voices into the heart of Australia’s federal democracy, ...

At the end of a Deborah Levy essay on Freud and the Viennese Kaffeehaus is an uncanny image of menace – “There will for ever be a snake in the cake box.” Scaled threat curled in sugary tissue paper ...