The government believes its broken promise on investment incentives will rebalance the housing market and the tax system ...
Les Blank’s on-the-scene documentary on the making of Fitzcarraldo revealed the mad drive of director Werner Herzog ...
This knowledge is what leads an instinctively cautious politician to take a big risk and brazenly break a promise that just a ...
When Finland’s underground nuclear waste facility is sealed for millennia, how can we communicate its dangers to future, ...
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.
2025: With Australia’s political institutions being key to its prosperity, do we require a form of conservative radicalism to preserve them? When I proposed the title for this talk to the ABC, I was ...
One of the defining moments for soon-to-be Prime Minister Scott Morrison was when he brought a lump of lacquered Hunter Valley coal into parliament in February 2017. “Don’t be afraid, don’t be scared, ...
In 2009, when I interviewed Christopher Hitchens in anticipation of his appearance at the inaugural Festival of Dangerous Ideas, I used our last 10 minutes together to ask his opinion of, among other ...
Dark Emu appeared in bookshops in March 2014 much as most books do: with a brief publicity campaign arranged by its publisher. Bruce Pascoe was already something of a public figure – as well as ...
You can make the case that rapid change always brings existential dread. Or that there’s nothing new about the end of the world. But it really is different this time. Consider the recent forecast made ...