A time to remember
The passing of Labor’s great speechwriter Graham Freudenberg highlights the party’s absence of a clear rationale
In light of recent events
Senator Matt Canavan or Yowie?
Oslo Davis is a widely published illustrator, artist and cartoonist.
‘Lambs of God’
Director Jeffrey Walker blends ripe melodrama and Gothic thriller in his TV series about three wayward nuns
The Newcastle trial of Graeme Lawrence
The second most senior churchman in Australia to be found guilty of child sexual abuse
‘Here Until August’ by Josephine Rowe
The Australian author’s second short-story collection focuses on the precipice of change rather than its culmination
Something mythic
For Robyn Davidson, her acclaimed memoir ‘Tracks’ was an act of freedom whose reception hemmed her in
COVID-19 versus human rights
The virus is the latest excuse for governments to slash and burn the individual rights of prisoners
Road map to nowhere
Angus Taylor’s road map is anything but an emissions reduction strategy
Into the slippery unknown: ‘The Gospel of the Eels’
Patrik Svensson’s eloquent debut is a hymn to the elusiveness of eels and an ode to family