As East of Eden becomes a Netflix series, Steinbeck’s sprawling Californian saga still holds power through its moral ambition ...

A new El Niño will likely bring heatwaves, droughts and health problems to southern Australia. In the UK, it’s already too ...

Every Australian family was once the newcomer; some arrived generations ago, others arrived last week. Yet, every generation ...

Paul Giles is Professor of English in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. He works mainly on American and other Anglophone literature and ...

There is a persistent belief in this country that you can import the American grievance-media business model, the outrage ...

Shelley’s portrayal of consciousness helps us to better understand why artificial intelligence cannot feel wonder or shame.

Donald Trump once called cryptocurrency a scam. Now it has made him more than US$1 billion – and created a new channel for conflicts of interest, special favours and institutionalised corruption. US ...

The current housing crisis is yet to focus properly on those who do not qualify for social housing but cannot compete in the ...

To fix the housing crisis, further reform is needed that shifts taxation away from earnings onto passive assets. Rates of homeownership have fallen against a backdrop of rising prices. Meanwhile, ...

Electric vehicles will not save the planet on their own but anti-EV rhetoric conveniently ignores the problems caused by ...

It's too late for Starmer, but Albanese has two years to take a bold stance against Hansonism and explain to the public his ...

In a speech marking the 20th anniversary of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), Kim Carr ...