The biggest electoral reforms in 40 years have been criticised as a plot to entrench the two-party system, which would deliver millions in extra funding to Labor and the Coalition.
Following the defeat of the Voice, the Treaty negotiations that began in Victoria this week represent the last active process to give First Nations people agency over the decisions that affect them.
By insisting that Australia’s housing crisis is all about supply, governments are ignoring the decades-long trend of shrinking households, which is also contributing to social isolation.
Melbourne Theatre Company’s jubilant musical adaptation of Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career breathes new life and vibrancy into an Australian classic.
At the end of a Deborah Levy essay on Freud and the Viennese Kaffeehaus is an uncanny image of menace – “There will for ever be a snake in the cake box.” Scaled threat curled in sugary tissue paper ...