The meeting had been in progress for five hours when Conrad Black strode into Kerry Packer’s sumptuous suite at the Savoy. It was June 1991 and Packer was in England to play polo. Between chukkas, he ...
By 1829, Truganini was running out of options. Her mother had been stabbed to death by a sailor, her uncle shot by a soldier, ...
The largest new fossil-fuel project in Australia threatens the world’s most significant rock art ...
Christopher Nolan’s film is big on virtue and righteous violence, but fails the poem’s complexities of what the beleaguered ...
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The Albanese government is toughening its stance against modern slavery. But there’s a whole other story in what it’s not doing, why not, and for what is, why now.
The Oscar-nominated postwar story of an autocratic immigrant architect in the US unwittingly mirrors Donald Trump’s edict on ...
Was the PM’s appearance on a crass podcast really an attempt to play to a particular audience or was it less complicated than ...
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich used the word “magnificent” to describe Olga Tokarczuk’s work. Tokarczuk is the Polish ...
Themed around ‘Ceremony’, the NGA exhibition provides a moving examination of what it means to be Indigenous in 2022 ...
At the beginning of lockdown, seeking reassurance that the coronavirus, while clearly sub-optimal, was not necessarily an ...