Media stories about Alice Springs emphasise lawlessness and dysfunction, but on the ground it is a community let down by successive government failures “They did this, not us!” It’s what Aunty Pat ...

Editor-in-chief of The Economist Zanny Minton Beddoes, on what it would take for a permanent end to the fighting, and the future for Ukraine if that can’t be reached. For two-and-a-half years, Ukraine ...

Anthropologist and writer Michelle Jasmin Dimasi on what the families of the Afghan men told her about the alleged crimes of Australian soldiers. A five-minute drive from the cliff where Ben ...

Columnist for The Saturday Paper Paul Bongiorno on the indirect ways the Middle East conflict could shape life here in Australia – and the outcome of the election. The war in the Middle East is ...

Michael sits down with Attica’s head chef to discuss his new memoir, Uses for Obsession. There are few people in this country as obsessed with understanding the cultural and social potential of ...

Director of the Australia Institute’s climate and energy program Polly Hemming, on the rhetoric of “nature positivity” and the inaction it hides. Protecting Australia’s environment is a matter of ...

Israel correspondent for The Economist Anshel Pfeffer on where the Middle East is headed, and how, or if, the fighting can end. One year on from the October 7 attacks against Israel, the region is ...

Michael sits down with writer Rumaan Alam for a conversation about his latest novel, Entitlement, and they discuss class, desire, and the influence of Sylvia Plath. Malcolm Knox began his career as a ...

If the US vice-presidential debate was refreshingly civil, the candidates avoided much discussion of domestic and ...

Henry James is reputed to have said that when you tell a dream, you lose a reader. I’ve never been convinced of that view. But then, I grew up on the vision stories of the Old Testament: Jacob ...

Five women artists come together to challenge the traditional art world’s understanding of “emotional” as female Art, of course, is language, but Mithu Sen is unusually mouthy for a visual artist.

When I talk to Charlotte Wood – fresh from the Edinburgh International Book Festival, a side-trip to Ireland and the news of her latest book’s longlisting for the 2024 Booker Prize – she is sojourning ...