I first learned of Captain Moonlite from the historian Graham Willett. In Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne, a book Willett co-edited, Moonlite features “as the bushranger most likely to qualify as ...

The Scott Morrison who claims that deterring boat people from ever embarking on the hazardous journey across the Indian Ocean ...

It is characteristic of The Drones to make distant or overlooked history – particularly Australian history – resonant and ...

Just a short drive from the Portuguese university town of Coimbra, in Vale de Canas, a sea of eucalypts extends to the horizon in all directions. The tallest tree in Europe sprouted here 120 years ago ...

Many years ago in Sydney, moments before I was due on stage, the stage manager breezily mentioned that the composer might be in the audience. I fled to the bathroom and locked the door, scanning the ...

In his magnificent address to parliament in February 2008, it seemed as though Kevin Rudd had not merely parted company with Howard on the question of the Stolen Generations, but had sided with ...

There is perhaps no justice quite so poetic as when an errant lawyer goes to jail. Like the image of a prancing matador being hoist to the heavens on the horns of a bull, the barrister trading his ...

Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, has on his shelves a copy of Microcosmographia Academica, the classic university satire, written by the University of Cambridge scholar ...

Paul Kelly and the Dots. Turns out they’ve got the residency, every Friday night at the Kingston Hotel. And Friday night rolls around fast, so before you know it you’re back there checking them out ...

Experts have long blamed the decline of the Coorong on decades of over-extraction of water to irrigate the Murray–Darling ...

Chairman and founder Gautam Adani’s transformation from a small struggling businessman in the state of Gujarat, a trading ...

Katter had a lot riding on a majority “yes” vote. It would be more than a vote for de-amalgamation; it would be a validation ...