Frankness comes before fiction in When I’m Sixty-Four.

Frankness comes before fiction in When I’m Sixty-Four.

Frankness comes before fiction in When I’m Sixty-Four.

Israeli drone strike kills Mohammed Wishah, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, west of Gaza City.

Roberts, who introduced the term ‘welcome to country’, held multiple positions across decades in which she promoted Indigenous culture * Rhoda Roberts, Indigenous cultural leader who introduced the term ‘Welcome to Country’, dies aged 66 Spurned by a careers counsellor who advised her that finishing high school would be a waste of time, the Aboriginal storyteller, festival director, curator, actor and writer Rhoda Roberts went on to become one of Australia’s greatest cultural ambassadors. Roberts, a Bundjalung Widjabul Wiyebal elder who has died aged 66, dedicated her life to sharing the stories of her people, preserving and promoting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture through language, dance and ceremony, and securing pathways for First Nations talent to flourish. Continue reading...

When David Stratton died in 2025, Australian film lost not only a stalwart, but also, as Sam Twyford-Moore writes, one of its most devoted chroniclers. What does Stratton’s vision of the past fifty ye...

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Author and InReview editor Walter Marsh tells how Writers' Week furore leaves "our small literary pond feeling just as toxic" as algal bloom.

That old one — the working class as one dumb mass — is nothing but another bourgeois cliché. We are not simpletons, we’re just exploited.

Rewatching ABC’s book show highlights a negligent lack of televised arts criticism.

Former AFL player Mitch Brown creates history by becoming the first person in the league's 129-year history to reveal he is bisexual.

The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companies’ brazen arguments – and caught the Australian government off-guard

Productivity Commission report raises possible exemption for ‘text and data mining’ and expanding fair dealing rules, prompting fierce pushback * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Arts, creative and media groups have demanded the government rule out allowing big tech companies to take Australian content to train their artificial intelligence models, with concerns such a shift would “sell out” Australian workers and lead to “rampant theft” of intellectual property. The Albanese government has said it has no plans to change copyright law, but any changes must consider effects on artists and news media. The opposition leader, Sussan Ley, has demanded that copyrighted material must not be used without compensation. Continue reading...

Jillian Segal’s position as antisemitism spokesperson is untenable

Doctors say hundreds have been wounded by Israeli gunfire while trying to reach convoys

Not “best.” Not “favorite.” Not “most likable.” Most significant. Some are obvious. Some obscure. A few will be controversial. Let the debate begin.

Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family