Anthony Albanese is vowing to personally seek a carve-out for Australia from Donald Trump’s looming 25% tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, in his first official phone call with the US president ...

Labor is negotiating support for a number of its key policies ahead of what may be the final Senate sitting week before the federal election. The Greens have signalled it will back the ...

On New Year’s Eve, Anthony Albanese stopped drinking. He did the same thing before the previous campaign. After a difficult first term, the prime minister says he is match fit. Despite the polls, he ...

In June last year the president of the Australian Medical Association, Steve Robson, wrote to National Party leader David Littleproud denouncing his opposition to new laws that proposed to ban ...

What was hoped to be a new wave of body positivity on the catwalks of the world’s fashion capitals is being swamped by a tide of Ozempic.

Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...

The kind of knowledge, the knowing, at the heart of Madeleine Ryan’s second novel is bodily, almost instinctual. It is knowledge that is deeply held and felt, but difficult to pin down or explain or ...

Mandy Beaumont’s 2022 debut novel, The Furies, is a powerful account of a young woman, maltreated from childhood, who decides she has had enough. Cynthia becomes a “woman about to start a mighty war”.

The plot was simple, its brashness profound and the result exquisite. What follows is the Platonic ideal of a sporting hoax – the ultimate, real-life fulfilment of pub banter. Astonishing stuff and ...

A fortnight before Christmas, a former assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Aged Care wrote a candid and surprising letter to the chair of Meals on Wheels Australia. The note apologised ...

Journalist Shiori Itō is in something akin to self-imposed exile from her home country, Japan. While she still visits – her cat and dog remain in Tokyo – she moved to Berlin in 2023. She’s in ...

Don Farrell believes his best strategy to keep Australia out of an escalating series of trade wars initiated by United States President Donald Trump is “cool, calm and collected” common sense. This is ...