“When you feel you are nothing but a propagandist, and you feel like it’s going to consume all of you, you need to even it ...

From Kurt’s guitar to JFK’s rocking chair, the remarkable collection of memorabilia amassed by the late billionaire Jim Irsay goes under the hammer ...

The outgoing Nationals leader’s self-aggrandising self-appraisal hasn’t gone over well with his colleagues ...

How long-distance running changed the life of the former Australian of the Year (and earnt her a record win in an ultramarathon) ...

For a long time, David Byrne was an actor playing an imponderable version of himself. He wore “shoes with no socks in cold weather”, in one of the great Talking Heads songs from the cryptic, delphic ...

We are experiencing another bout of panic about whether or not we are loved by America, and whether America will be there for us. This kind of panic has gripped elements of the national security ...

There is little I can add to this searing, stunning open letter, lest I be guilty of trying to summarise it myself. But it is rather unfortunate that the people who most need to read it are the people ...

Dark Emu appeared in bookshops in March 2014 much as most books do: with a brief publicity campaign arranged by its publisher. Bruce Pascoe was already something of a public figure – as well as ...

Email was invented entirely for the benefit of Peter Temple. He knew this and he made full use of the fact. From the time that we began publishing him, in 2003, every day was spiced with the ...

A new Australian novelist skewers her nation’s familial fault lines, while a veteran British writer skewers his whole damn country I am the executor of my parents’ will – not by choice, but by the ...