In June last year the president of the Australian Medical Association, Steve Robson, wrote to National Party leader David Littleproud denouncing his opposition to new laws that proposed to ban ...

On New Year’s Eve, Anthony Albanese stopped drinking. He did the same thing before the previous campaign. After a difficult first term, the prime minister says he is match fit. Despite the polls, he ...

What was hoped to be a new wave of body positivity on the catwalks of the world’s fashion capitals is being swamped by a tide of Ozempic.

Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...

The plot was simple, its brashness profound and the result exquisite. What follows is the Platonic ideal of a sporting hoax – the ultimate, real-life fulfilment of pub banter. Astonishing stuff and ...

The kind of knowledge, the knowing, at the heart of Madeleine Ryan’s second novel is bodily, almost instinctual. It is knowledge that is deeply held and felt, but difficult to pin down or explain or ...

Early one morning, in December 2016, Daniel Lieberman was woken at home by a neighbour in his suburb of Liverpool, England. His car was ablaze, the result, it turned out, of a bomb. Within minutes, ...

Journalist Shiori Itō is in something akin to self-imposed exile from her home country, Japan. While she still visits – her cat and dog remain in Tokyo – she moved to Berlin in 2023. She’s in ...

It was in the late 17th century that Johannes Hofer, a Swiss physician, noticed the symptoms of a new syndrome, a “sad mood originating from the desire to return to one’s native land”. In the ...

Anthony Albanese’s promise to create an environment protection agency in the current parliamentary term was finally killed off on Wednesday when the Coalition voted with the government to remove the ...

In Uchenna Awoke’s debut novel, The Liquid Eye of a Moon, 15-year-old Dimkpa, his parents’ first-born son, yearns to pull himself out of his family’s poverty and shame in his small Nigerian village.

Don Farrell believes his best strategy to keep Australia out of an escalating series of trade wars initiated by United States President Donald Trump is “cool, calm and collected” common sense. This is ...