In his novel Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie’s protagonist, Saleem Sinai, is “mysteriously handcuffed to history”. His destiny is indissolubly chained to his country, India. Rushdie has said he ...

The polluting impact of fossil fuels is not new to those who peddle them. Nearly 30 years ago, when I was an executive at BP, we acknowledged climate change and what it would bring – despite others in ...

Last Sunday, a few hours before dawn, a group of men in black masks arrived at Northland in Melbourne with a banner that read “Ban n-----s not machetes”. They posed for a photograph in front of the ...

The PM’s reunification of the super-ministry reverses a move that critics say made it more accountable, and is a boon for the leadership ambitions of Tony Burke.

Highlights of the 72nd Sydney Film Festival include Alex Ross Perry’s fascinating tribute to video stores as well as a plethora of films about small-town ritual.

There are very few titles that have the freedom and the space to produce journalism like this. In a country with a concentration of media ownership unlike anything else in the world, it is vitally ...

The Tasmanian Liberal government is in crisis and a snap election likely to be called as the premier clings to plans for a stadium that will bankrupt the state.

After almost eight years of delays, Murray Watt raced to make the extension of Woodside’s largest fossil fuel project his ...

Andrew Boe | is a barrister. He was one of the lawyers representing the Doomadgee family in the inquest into the death of Cameron Doomadgee and is one of the counsel representing the family in the ...

I have always supposed that much, if not most, contemporary poetry is nonfiction, that you are eavesdropping on a life being lived and understood in increments. But I have sometimes winced at what ...

The Potter Museum of Art’s new exhibition, years in the making, gives a rare and full account of this country’s art history by engaging with some of its earliest works.

The UN has ordered that Australia compensate the Afghan refugee who, having arrived as an unaccompanied child, endured more ...