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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

‘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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Last time I dreamt about Robert Smith – The Cure’s singer, songwriter and sole constant member – we were on the train that I ...