Publishing unattributed votes is designed to increase accountability, as recommended by the RBA review that Treasurer Jim ...

‘Mira Gojak / Elizabeth Newman’ illustrates the possibilities for curated shows in commercial galleries The curated exhibition is often seen as the domain of the non-commercial gallery or large-scale ...

How the COVID-19 crisis could be catastrophic for Australia’s already vulnerable arts sector The global coronavirus pandemic is escalating so rapidly that an observation made in the morning is likely ...

Does anyone remember the first time they heard Aretha Franklin singing “Respect”? It is a song that arrives like a memory already formed. Franklin, too, is like that, and her death last week at the ...

Director Bong Joon-ho on ‘Okja’, Netflix and the new cinema model Stranger things have happened at the Sydney Film Festival. Still, in the ornate, art-deco surrounds of the city’s State Theatre, the ...

In the crisp setting of Tolarno Galleries in Melbourne, Brent Harris’ exhibition of new paintings, The Small Sword (until 4 November), presents as intriguingly aloof. Soft bodily forms – flat and ...

The NSW Liberal Party has long been a cesspit of factional power games, with Tony Abbott’s hard right, Scott Morrison’s ...

What might be needed to convince Türkiye to clear the way for an Australia–Pacific partnership to host the COP31 climate summit?

I re-watched Whiplash the other day. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a terrific, morally indefensible movie about a music teacher who pushes a young jazz drummer to greatness. Its unusual central message ...

A reflection on how early-life trauma might not just prepare us to cope with danger and anguish but attract us to it A few weeks ago, I finished the first draft of my third book, an untitled ...

For most of Australia’s history, work-life balance has been a story of continuous improvement — a story that came to a sudden halt in the 1980s. Despite numerous labour-saving technological advances ...