A reflection on how early-life trauma might not just prepare us to cope with danger and anguish but attract us to it ...

The late Paul Reubens opens up about his life as a queer radical artist, and Michelle Williams stars in the true story of an ...

The posthumous collection of psychiatric summaries regarding the American writer’s tragically doomed daughter that should ...

The 70-year-old author revisits the south-west Victorian town where, half a century ago, he was a cub reporter at The ...

Musician Warren Ellis visits the animal sanctuary he helped establish in southern Sumatra for a documentary directed by ...

Looking for dinosaur bones with the volunteer whose prehistoric amphibian discovery became Victoria’s fossil emblem ...

The musicologist Lawrence Kramer dates the “invention” of listening to the 18 th century, alongside the concept of the inner self. In his 2007 book Why Classical Music Still Matters, he writes, “All ...

Low-budget Australian New Wave throwbacks The Surfer and Dangerous Animals deliver dark stories of violent parochialism on ...

An Australian Antarctic expedition researching melting ice shelves and ocean currents has found phytoplankton in the depths ...

In the middle of the night, in the company of “C”, an animal activist, he goes into a turkey shed to see what factory farming is like. He is distressed by the numbers of obviously sick and dead birds ...

Ken Haley is a Walkley Award–winning journalist and author of The One That Got Away: Travelling in the Time of Covid.

Mercy Place is closing down. I talked to the man ...