Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will soon head to Washington DC for his first bilateral visit. He’ll arrive into a feverish political climate ahead of next year’s presidential election. As that approaches, Australia and other democracies that consider themselves friends to the United States must forgo the timid approach of refusing to comment on other countries’ […]
In the two years since Simone Biles returned home from the Olympics mentally and physically empty, it has taken everything for her to make it back to the top. She first had to withdraw from her sport in order to heal, with many hours spent in therapy. Since her return, she has thrown herself back in like […]
During World War II a vast, underground bunker full of fuel for Australian and Allied ships lay in the periphery of Sydney’s Domain parkland. In the 1980s it was drained and then abandoned for decades. The Art Gallery of New South Wales recently made it the dimly lit jewel of its new contemporary wing. The […]
What’s the best thing about Australia? Or at least the most emblematic thing? Here’s my vote: the free gas barbecues in local parks. They’re everywhere: outer suburbs, regional towns and beachside parks. The local council pays for the gas, even though half the people using that gas are ring-ins from other areas. “No worries, help […]
Support for a referendum to constitutionally recognise Australia’s Indigenous people slipped further, with the landmark proposal set to fail in a national vote roughly three weeks away, two opinion polls showed on Monday. Support for a “Voice to Parliament“, an Indigenous committee to advise parliament on matters affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people, fell […]
In the 2000s, male artists routinely excavated the popular culture of their boyhood for imaginative repurposing in their art. Michael Chabon’s novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay traces the lives of two men who become comic-book creators. In Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude, two boys find a magic ring they use to take on superpowers; the […]
Interest rates will have to keep rising to stop the “insidious” damage caused by inflation, the world’s key central bank has signalled while warning businesses are contributing to global cost-of-living pressures by pushing up their prices to maintain profits. As signs grow that some pressure is coming out of Australia’s jobs market, the Bank for […]
A renowned Titanic expert, a world-record-holding adventurer, two members of one of Pakistan’s wealthiest families and the CEO of the company leading an expedition to the world’s most famous shipwreck are facing critical danger aboard a small submersible that has gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean. The submersible Titan was reported overdue on Sunday night about […]