by Greg McLaren

Hilary McPhee co-founded McPhee Gribble, the legendary Australian publishing house responsible for Monkey Grip, Puberty Blues and Cloudstreet.

is being a white nationalist the greatest learning disability of them all?

The novelist, poet and rapper won $60,000 for his novel about two siblings who reckon with the legacy of their late father, a palm oil baron in Malaysian Borneo * Fierceland by Omar Musa review – poet and rapper’s second novel pulses with life When Omar Musa found out he had won Australia’s most prestigious prize for fiction, the $60,000 Miles Franklin literary award, he was already on a high. The 42-year-old was on his honeymoon, carefully dodging motorcycles in the Philippines when he got the call. “I just couldn’t believe it,” he told the Guardian, jetlagged and elated after arriving back in Australia three hours earlier. “I’m floating along. Life does lifey things.” Continue reading...

One Nation MP refines party’s view on national identity as he accepts award for ‘political courage’ at anti-abortion gala organised by Joanna Howe

Even weeds need specific conditions to grow, and it just so happens that One Nation thrives particularly well in the blood-soaked soil of Queensland.

British actor starred on the West End before finding international fame in the 90s on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Schuyler once told an interviewer that he didn’t write the kind of poetry that attracted critics. ‘It’s too easy...

Banned White Australia group lodges documents with high court stating legislation ‘burdens freedom of governmental and political communication’

Australia’s richest person questions cost and time spent investigating former soldiers as pockets of support emerge for Victoria Cross recipient

Newcastle Poetry Prize Proudly presented in partnership with the University of Newcastle, the Newcastle Poetry Prize offers one of Australia’s most significant opportunities for poets, with a $15,000 ...

An interview with Michael Winkler and Anne Casey-Hardy

Syaban Shadikillah told to get new driver’s licence after being issued one using photo of him with colander on his head

The award-winning cartoonist Jon Kudelka died in Hobart on Sunday, aged 53. Over 30 years, his work resisted the polarisation of the contemporary Australian media.

Award-winning Tasmanian artist’s work was published by the Australian, the Saturday Paper and the Hobart Mercury

Cancel culture strikes again? Adelaide Writers' Week, risk management, and our de facto national cultural policy settings

A 31-year-old man is charged with making explosives in suspicious circumstances after a device was allegedly thrown into a crowd of hundreds of people attending an Invasion Day rally in central Perth ...

There's a lot of noise around January 26th each year. Arguments erupt. Names get called. Social media becomes a battlefield. And in all that heat, very few people actually stop, listen, and engage wit...

Vernon Ah Kee is an original member of the proppaNOW Collective. With Drive it, Vernon critiques Australian claims to the Australian continent. Please Note: This shirt is a JB’s Colours of Cotton shir...

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This map shows documented massacres of the First Nations peoples across Australia, from the early years of the colony to within several decades of living memory.

When the news broke yesterday about Craig Silvey’s arrest I felt so wild with rage that my body shook.