Gaza: Israel and Hamas were reportedly close to a deal this week that would involve an immediate ceasefire and the release of hostages, as police raided New York’s Columbia University to remove ...

The Great Barrier Reef’s fifth bleaching event in eight years shows no sign of prompting action from our political leaders.

When violinist Madeleine Easton first played Bach’s cantata ‘Christ lag in Todes Banden’, she started spontaneously crying. In that moment, her world changed.

The gas industry’s sponsorship of the latest series of MasterChef Australia is a misleading attempt to bring the climate wars close to home.

One of the problems with Anthony Albanese is he thinks people know who he is. He thinks they look at him and see his decency, that they see the story of his upbringing, of the boy in a commission ...

The shortest day of the year approaches as an invitation for the gardener to consolidate – to do less, better.

Anthologies hold an important place in the literary landscape. Reflecting a spectrum of community experience and expression, they transport us into different worlds. First Nations anthologies are a ...

Last month, a certain corner of the internet was scandalised when Neil Tennant, lead singer and songwriter of the Pet Shop Boys, said he couldn’t understand the popularity of Taylor Swift. “To have a ...

One of Bryan Washington’s passions is food. He was for a while a food columnist for The New York Times, writing recipes for ...

As media companies including News Corp prepare for more redundancies following the loss of payments from Facebook, the ...

Having pushed for nuclear power as a signature energy policy, National MPs are now divided over where to build reactors – ...

The federal government has made a $925m pledge to expand a financial support scheme for women fleeing violent relationships, but experts say it addresses only part of the issue.