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 ...

Malcolm Knox began his career as a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald, back in the 90s. Since then he has written more than a dozen books of nonfiction and has been publishing fiction since 2000 ...

A reflection on the process and burden of creating an imagined future during a time of climate crisis and existential dread ...

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 ...

Welcome to the Monthly Book. Each month Ramona Koval chooses a book, provides reading notes and posts a video interview. The author of The Crimson Petal and the White returns with a new novel that is ...

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Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, taking in theatre, visual art, books, dance, festivals and a YouTube miniaturist A courageous and honest examination of memory, loss 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 ...

7am is a daily news podcast brought to you by Schwartz Media and The Saturday Paper. It’s produced by Cheyne Anderson, Zoltan Fecso, and Zaya Altangerel. Our senior producer is Chris Dengate. Our ...

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.

Harini Rathnakumar on how her promise of a better life in Australia was shattered, and the many others stuck in visa limbo. As a child refugee in India, Harini dreamt of making it to Australia to ...

Plus, Barnaby Joyce shines in ‘Nemesis’, Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott deliver ‘Bottoms’, and Chloë Sevigny and Molly Ringwald step up for ‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’.