Having chosen not to re-contest his federal seat of Moreton, Labor’s Graham Perrett returned to his first profession – ...

What kind of mandate does a landslide election victory earn when the nation’s vote is paradoxically almost evenly divided?

Getting some face time with a petulant president who holds a grudge is a challenge for many world leaders, not just Albanese ...

The extension of the North West Shelf gas project underscores the urgent need for nationally legislated plans for climate ...

A reflection on how early-life trauma might not just prepare us to cope with danger and anguish but attract us to it ...

The 70-year-old author revisits the south-west Victorian town where, half a century ago, he was a cub reporter at The ...

I was putting on a bit of dog for the fresh envoy of a Great European Nation. This was deep in the Howard era, and we were drinking coffee in one of the sitting rooms the Sydney Morning Herald used to ...

Low-budget Australian New Wave throwbacks The Surfer and Dangerous Animals deliver dark stories of violent parochialism on the coast A film about a ship’s captain who abducts women, lowers them into ...

The posthumous collection of psychiatric summaries regarding the American writer’s tragically doomed daughter that should never have been published It’s not a rare species, the New York Times ...

In their 20s, some of the cast of reality TV show The Valley (streaming on Hayu), worked as waiters at SUR, a dusty, faux-glamorous West Hollywood bar and restaurant where their consistently ...

Jonathan Safran Foer is a talented novelist with a gift for writing amusingly about serious issues. In Everything Is Illuminated (2003), he created a Ukrainian narrator, Alex, who describes in ...