It was the place where Manning first began intuiting social class, a theme that would obsessively dominate his history of ...

Almost a century later, Scandinavian timber companies began buying up vast parcels of Portuguese land to grow Eucalyptus globulus, or blue gums, to pulp for paper. The vast plantations crippled ...

In an increasingly toxic online world, resistance might be less engagement with social media and more with friends and family ...

In the days of bipartisan shock that followed the 2019 federal election, when the Coalition and Labor were asking themselves the same, simple question – what the hell just happened? – a senior member ...

GetUp! (how people detest that little exclamation mark) grew slowly at first. From its initial campaign – warning Coalition senators that ordinary Australians would hold them to account after the ...

I’m pretty sure I hadn’t written a major triad since high school.” In the composition fraternity of the mid ’80s, this was indeed a daring move. “There was a sort of warfare going on, and I was a ...

In March, the South Australian screenwriter had travelled to Austin, Texas. Her debut feature was playing at South by Southwest (SXSW), the music and film festival that has launched careers as well as ...

In December 1928, settling into village life on Manus Island, the anthropologist Margaret Mead sent a gleeful letter home to the United States via the boat that visited every three weeks. She was ...

Well. Where to begin to approach this dazzling writer? Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich used the word “magnificent” to describe Olga Tokarczuk’s work. Tokarczuk is the Polish writer who won this ...

When my close friend Catharine Lumby, who is also Frank Moorhouse’s biographer, called me on June 26 to say Frank had died, I wasn’t surprised. My first question was to ask if he’d died of natural ...