The anniversary of Peter Carey’s Booker-winning masterpiece prompts a revisit of the literature and cinema telling the most archetypical of Australian stories It is 25 years now since Peter Carey ...

Max Ogden is a lifelong unionist, including a career as an industrial officer at the ACTU between 1988 and 2000. He is the author of Long View From the Left.

Monic Dux is a Melbourne writer whose most recent book is Lapsed: Losing Your Religion is Harder Than It Looks.

A cancer diagnosis delivers a passion for weightlifting as a means of reordering how to inhabit one’s body and revel in its strength Apparently, it’s not uncommon for competitors to lose control of ...

The first poem I read by Luke Morcom is entitled ‘My Loving Wife’. In the first three stanzas, a man sings in praise of his new spouse, counting the ways that he loves her. But then, in the final two ...

The government’s climate-action agenda has its predictable detractors, but the current decentralised approach is risking a ...

Lena Dunham’s new rom-com series mines her life with her British musician husband, but the fun and froth gives way to an unremarkable story of trauma ...

Kevin Macdonald’s documentary inadvertently downplays Houston’s impact on pop music history There’s a piece of handycam footage in Kevin Macdonald’s new documentary, Whitney, that gives the film, ...

‘Mira Gojak / Elizabeth Newman’ illustrates the possibilities for curated shows in commercial galleries The curated exhibition is often seen as the domain of the non-commercial gallery or large-scale ...

How the COVID-19 crisis could be catastrophic for Australia’s already vulnerable arts sector The global coronavirus pandemic is escalating so rapidly that an observation made in the morning is likely ...