The passing of Labor’s great speechwriter Graham Freudenberg highlights the party’s absence of a clear rationale

The second most senior churchman in Australia to be found guilty of child sexual abuse

Victoria’s royal commission hears stories of a dysfunctional, under-resourced mental health system

The security business partnering with domestic violence services to help women and children escape abuse

Luke Cornish’s Border Force mural at Bondi Beach comes under attack

We know surprisingly little about how our brains orchestrate our sex lives

The Babadook director talks about the necessity of violence in her colonial drama

How can we be transformed by music if online platforms mean we will always remain ourselves?

Director Jeffrey Walker blends ripe melodrama and Gothic thriller in his TV series about three wayward nuns

The Australian author’s second short-story collection focuses on the precipice of change rather than its culmination

A sardonic French bestseller about a godmother, in the organised crime sense of the word