Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich used the word “magnificent” to describe Olga Tokarczuk’s work. Tokarczuk is the Polish ...
The Oscar-nominated postwar story of an autocratic immigrant architect in the US unwittingly mirrors Donald Trump’s edict on ...
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.
At the beginning of lockdown, seeking reassurance that the coronavirus, while clearly sub-optimal, was not necessarily an ...
And I don’t know why, I just can’t.” From his seat, Kelly looks out across the wind-chopped ocean, where 248 years ago Captain James Cook sailed on his way up the east coast of the continent. Nine ...
As the oddball new-wave band reforms to celebrate their 50th anniversary, Matthew Walker’s documentary describes their unlikely ascent to fame New “It was a different time,” begins Reg Mombassa, his ...
After so many images of beds dishevelled by the romping of their occupants, it’s a shock to come upon the neat, joyless, strictly solitary beds of Ward E, Medical Unit A, where Jerrems spent three ...
Who will succeed the ‘godparents of Australia’s dinosaur-era mammals’, whose discoveries on the Victorian coast mean the spread of prehistoric life across the globe may need to be reconsidered? New ...
"In a video from a private fundraiser, (Romney) appeared to insult half the country as freeloaders. There are 47 percent ...