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.
Was the PM’s appearance on a crass podcast really an attempt to play to a particular audience or was it less complicated than that? New After Anthony Albanese sat down at The Lodge with a ...
Steven Spielberg’s credulity makes his latest alien contact film, Disclosure Day, mawkish and old-fashioned rather than ...
Contending with the truth about award-winning author Craig Silvey, a friend who pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child-exploitation material New I’m on holiday on the Gold Coast when I ...
From Midwinter jokes to mounting internal tensions, the Liberal leader faces growing questions about whether he can keep his party united New For a leader under pressure, the Federal Parliamentary ...
French artist Loris Gréaud’s film – viewed by a single person at a time – is an obsessive meditation on access, discovery and devotion I’m sitting alone on a red bench outside a sandstone church when ...