Paul Kelly and the Dots. Turns out they’ve got the residency, every Friday night at the Kingston Hotel. And Friday night ...

The government is taking a risk in having to sell the benefits of a complicated tax change, as history shows us ...

The government believes its broken promise on investment incentives will rebalance the housing market and the tax system ...

One lunchtime in August 1948, Peter Finch was doing Molière on the shop floor at O'Brien's glass factory in Sydney when Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh turned up.

Les Blank’s on-the-scene documentary on the making of Fitzcarraldo revealed the mad drive of director Werner Herzog ...

When Finland’s underground nuclear waste facility is sealed for millennia, how can we communicate its dangers to future, unknowable humans? Very soon, likely within a few weeks, one of the world’s ...

Anthony Albanese is a student of politics, not physics, but he knows that compared to the latter, the former’s laws are a lot less ironclad. While Newton’s apple falls straight down no matter where, ...

Norman Mailer’s ego was infamously and comically pungent. Like Woody Allen’s neurosis or Warren Beatty’s virility, for decades it was a basic, popularly accepted fact of American public life – a ...

Here’s how infidelity is exposed in Hollywood movies: a private detective, a camera, a man and his mistress. Think of Jack Nicholson’s Jake Gittes in Roman Polanski’s 1974 neo-noir drama Chinatown. In ...

When Health Minister Mark Butler confirmed this week how far the government was now prepared to go to rein in the National Disability Insurance Scheme, he didn’t want to be accused of hiding the truth ...

In September of 1925, people of non-European heritage applying to migrate to Australia were required to faithfully and accurately comprehend and reproduce in writing the following 50-word passage, ...