As Australia faces a crisis of orientation, an expatriate argues that being adaptable is better than being visionary ...

To sum up the last half-century: in 1972 and 1974 Labor won all five Tasmania’s seats. Then from 1975 to 1984 the Liberals ...

Michael Tippett completed his fifth and final opera, New Year, in 1988, the English composer’s own eighty-fourth year. It had its first production at Houston Grand Opera, directed by Peter Hall, the ...

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If anyone doubted that Australia’s most important diplomatic relationship is now brutally transactional, Thursday’s mugged-by-reality announcement in Washington should relegate the idea to fantasy ...

You don’t have to be a full-on Freudian to see the truth in Freud’s proposal that jokes are the release of pent-up ...

The name Miles Franklin will be familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in Australian literary culture. When the writer died in 1954 she bequeathed funds to create a literary award to be made ...

Peter Dutton says he regards John Howard as more of a role model than Donald Trump. That’s a relief. Hang on, though, which John Howard is he talking about? When it comes to race and immigration, it’s ...