Sovereign is based on the true story of a deadly encounter between Jerry and Joseph Kane, a father and son, and West Memphis police officers in Arkansas. Swegal’s film concludes more or less where the ...

“I cannot live with You —” goes Emily Dickinson’s poem. “It would be Life —/ And Life is over there —/ Behind the Shelf.” Once upon a time many Australian homes had the books of Patrick White out ...

Albania is one of those Balkan countries too easily misunderstood, overlooked or stereotyped, with a history most conveniently described as “complicated.” One person who has helped the wider world get ...

Alison Bechdel is famous for inventing the “Bechdel Test,” a sarcastic way of assessing whether a film is non-sexist — it must contain at least one scene in which two named women are shown together ...

While the Coalition was combusting over climate change and energy policy on Thursday, treasurer Jim Chalmers went to visit his alma mater, the Australian National University, to talk about opportunity ...

Tuesday this week was a very good day for Democrats and a very bad day for both MAGA and the oligarchy. If I were a properly house-trained pundit, I would immediately follow that statement by throwing ...

The proceedings of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization don’t normally make headline news. (Except perhaps in Ocean Freight Times.) But the ...

A whole lot of people think that AI is going to eliminate many human jobs. Perhaps no one is more confident of this prediction than the engineers who are actually building the AI in question. For ...

When I began my working life at the late and lamented Department of Trade and Resources I was still fresh from poring over The Crisis in Australian Capitalism by the economics journalist Peter ...

Most Australians know comparatively little about their closest neighbour. While many of them would be able to rattle off the names of dozens of New Zealanders — sports people, politicians, actors, ...

A writer friend recently asked if I ever felt lonely. She confessed to being puzzled by the idea: her problem was an excess of people, with their endless demands and stupidities, not a lack. What her ...