Economist and contributor to The Saturday Paper Peter Martin, on the “illusory” discounts and how a Cadbury Caramello Koala helped fuel the outrage. There are hundreds of angry posts on X, TikTok and ...

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 ...

Michelle Jasmin Dimasi on the reality of life in Lebanon right now and why thousands of people, including Syrian refugees, are fleeing back into Syria. When Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was ...

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.

The reality TV series following a group of Utah “mom influencers” tending to their brands after a swingers scandal makes for uneven entertainment From Bravo’s delightfully unhinged Real Housewives of ...

Adam Elliot’s latest claymation feature tells the melancholy story of fostered siblings and a lonely life of hoarding Sometimes it feels as though every Australian film is a coming-of-age story.

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 ...

How the cashless society and bureaucratic management of public spaces have cleared the streets of buskers As I’m walking through the The Rocks Market in Sydney, I find myself thinking that this would ...

The English novelist’s latest dark masterpiece begins with the talented, queer, working-class protagonist invited to his sponsors’ country estate Dave Win, the half-Burmese, working-class protagonist ...

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 ...

The world is so vast, history so long and the vanished so countless, a person might quail to consider the living. But an artist, a visual artist intent on including himself in the practice of ...