The focus of the government’s reform roundtable has morphed from “productivity” to “economic reform”, but there’s been no change to its overarching question: what comes next?

One morning last month I was woken by what I thought was a bomb or an earthquake. It was, rather, several bottles of liquor that had been smashed upon our porch and front door: the opening act of a ...

The government has indicated Australia’s recognition of Palestine is imminent, as famine in Gaza forces the international community to act ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wind farm near Albany, Western Australia / CC BY-SA 2.5 The government’s climate-action agenda has its predictable detractors, but the current decentralised approach is risking a fall in wider public ...

Started by Stanley Kubrick and taken on by Steven Spielberg, the 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence has now ‘insinuated itself’ into the present ...

Asia became largely free of power politics in 1972, when China stopped challenging America in the region. Now the power politics has returned because China has reversed course and started to challenge ...

Games may be cancelled, but the names play on ...

I re-watched Whiplash the other day. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a terrific, morally indefensible movie about a music teacher who pushes a young jazz drummer to greatness. Its unusual central message ...