Getting some face time with a petulant president who holds a grudge is a challenge for many world leaders, not just Albanese ...

What kind of mandate does a landslide election victory earn when the nation’s vote is paradoxically almost evenly divided?

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

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

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

At the Royal Albert Hall in 1996, Kylie Minogue had an awe-inducing glimpse of the vacuum that she exists to fill. Nick Cave, after clubbing her to death in the video for ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’, ...

Just a short drive from the Portuguese university town of Coimbra, in Vale de Canas, a sea of eucalypts extends to the horizon in all directions. The tallest tree in Europe sprouted here 120 years ago ...

Many years ago in Sydney, moments before I was due on stage, the stage manager breezily mentioned that the composer might be in the audience. I fled to the bathroom and locked the door, scanning the ...

A UK company has developed large-scale thermal batteries to replace fossil fuel boilers and provide steam energy for industrial production “Put your hand on that,” urges James Macnaghten, indicating a ...

If you are looking for signs of the apocalypse, you need look no further than High School Musical, the film franchise that began life as a Disney Channel telemovie in 2006. The first film was the most ...