In his novel Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie’s protagonist, Saleem Sinai, is “mysteriously handcuffed to history”. His destiny is indissolubly chained to his country, India. Rushdie has said he ...

Sausages are a great leveller, a food of the people. Some varieties have been developed as rations during times of conflict and most as a necessity for protein preservation without refrigeration. Now ...

Jason Koutsoukis is wrong in asserting that the Advance campaign did not contribute to the Greens loss of seats (“Inside story: Advance ‘siphoned’ Liberal resources”, May 31–June 6). They contributed ...

The PM’s reunification of the super-ministry reverses a move that critics say made it more accountable, and is a boon for the ...

Highlights of the 72nd Sydney Film Festival include Alex Ross Perry’s fascinating tribute to video stores as well as a plethora of films about small-town ritual.

In the morning they give him a coat, buttoned agape in the wrong holes, the door slams behind, muffled curses follow, in the ...

The Tasmanian Liberal government is in crisis and a snap election likely to be called as the premier clings to plans for a ...

After almost eight years of delays, Murray Watt raced to make the extension of Woodside’s largest fossil fuel project his ...

Andrew Boe | is a barrister. He was one of the lawyers representing the Doomadgee family in the inquest into the death of Cameron Doomadgee and is one of the counsel representing the family in the ...

The Potter Museum of Art’s new exhibition, years in the making, gives a rare and full account of this country’s art history by engaging with some of its earliest works.

The UN has ordered that Australia compensate the Afghan refugee who, having arrived as an unaccompanied child, endured more ...

In economically depressed East Gladness, Connecticut, 19-year-old Hai, a suicidal college dropout, is talked off the ledge of ...