The Oscar-nominated postwar story of an autocratic immigrant architect in the US unwittingly mirrors Donald Trump’s edict on ...
Themed around ‘Ceremony’, the NGA exhibition provides a moving examination of what it means to be Indigenous in 2022 ...
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich used the word “magnificent” to describe Olga Tokarczuk’s work. Tokarczuk is the Polish ...
Christopher Nolan’s film is big on virtue and righteous violence, but fails the poem’s complexities of what the beleaguered ...
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The Albanese government is toughening its stance against modern slavery. But there’s a whole other story in what it’s not doing, why not, and for what is, why now.
Was the PM’s appearance on a crass podcast really an attempt to play to a particular audience or was it less complicated than that? New After Anthony Albanese sat down at The Lodge with a ...
The Cold War was a foreign import. Its origins and central battlegrounds were elsewhere. It was only here because it was everywhere. Yet I have long had the sense that for many Australians it occupied ...
At the beginning of lockdown, seeking reassurance that the coronavirus, while clearly sub-optimal, was not necessarily an ...
The event is part of “Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea” and alongside the refreshment tables are stalls weighed down with ...