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

Publishing unattributed votes is designed to increase accountability, as recommended by the RBA review that Treasurer Jim ...

‘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 ...

Does anyone remember the first time they heard Aretha Franklin singing “Respect”? It is a song that arrives like a memory already formed. Franklin, too, is like that, and her death last week at the ...

Director Bong Joon-ho on ‘Okja’, Netflix and the new cinema model Stranger things have happened at the Sydney Film Festival. Still, in the ornate, art-deco surrounds of the city’s State Theatre, the ...

In the crisp setting of Tolarno Galleries in Melbourne, Brent Harris’ exhibition of new paintings, The Small Sword (until 4 November), presents as intriguingly aloof. Soft bodily forms – flat and ...

The NSW Liberal Party has long been a cesspit of factional power games, with Tony Abbott’s hard right, Scott Morrison’s centre right, and the moderates, whose high-profile ranks have included Malcolm ...

What might be needed to convince Türkiye to clear the way for an Australia–Pacific partnership to host the COP31 climate summit?

Kiti is a PALM worker, one of about 11,000 employed in meat processing on temporary visas under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme. PALM workers now make up almost a quarter of the ...