Syria: Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the Islamist group in Syria that oversaw the ousting of Bashar al-Assad, has unveiled ...

The largest reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme are moving so fast that promises made to people with disability are already “being broken” to secure billions of dollars’ worth of ...

I’m always uncomfortable nominating just one book as my book of the year, but if I had to then it would probably be Percival Everett’s James (Mantle, 320pp, $34.99). A retelling of Mark Twain’s ...

The Olympics returned, and so did the spectators, liberated this year from the Covid restrictions that both delayed the previous games and cruelled Tokyo’s atmosphere. Just weeks before the opening ...

This was a year in which Australian artists showed how local narratives and voices can enrich global conversations to foster deeper understanding. The primary example was Archie Moore’s installation ...

The Coalition is moving to undo the First Nations naming of Australian military bases as it escalates its opposition to race-based symbols and other reconciliation policies. A senior Coalition source ...

Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, adapted from the Martin Amis novel about the family of a Nazi commandant who lives next door to the Auschwitz concentration camp, was the outstanding film of ...

“The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.” – Paul Morphy I cannot play chess well. I am not a gentleman. I was a maintenance ...

We’re running late. By the time we have woven through central Barcelona’s warren of alleys and plazas to reach Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, the square’s entrance is fenced off by a flimsy yellow ...

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 ...

There are really only two possibilities. Either Peter Dutton and Angus Taylor do not understand the basics of the Coalition’s signature nuclear power policy or they are deliberately, repeatedly ...

The day I meet with Chris Bettle, he recalls his age with incredulity. “I can’t believe I am 85. It can’t possibly be true,” he tells me one afternoon in his flat in the inner north of Canberra. “I ...