David Littleproud says he’s acting on principle as he blows up the Coalition over the hate-speech bill and likely condemns ...

The long history behind the bill to criminalise incitement of race-based hatred (and why George Brandis says it proves he was right) ...

Josh Safdie’s frenetic best-picture nominee is based on the memoir of a postwar American dreamer’s quest to be a world ...

Researchers are testing the likelihood of AI turning on us – and the possibilities are at best alarming You can make the case that rapid change always brings existential dread. Or that there’s nothing ...

Dark Emu appeared in bookshops in March 2014 much as most books do: with a brief publicity campaign arranged by its publisher. Bruce Pascoe was already something of a public figure – as well as ...

2025: Donald Trump’s presidency has given Australia the chance to recover its distinctive voice in world affairs We are experiencing another bout of panic about whether or not we are loved by America, ...

2025: With Australia’s political institutions being key to its prosperity, do we require a form of conservative radicalism to preserve them? When I proposed the title for this talk to the ABC, I was ...

Making sense of a new reality and the return of power politics – a Quarterly Essay extract For almost a decade now, the world’s two most powerful countries have been competing over which of them will ...

2025: An assessment of our readiness to tackle the life-changing effects of artificial intelligence The sci-fi author William Gibson said the future is here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.

Bruce Beresford’s unwatchable first feature film, which glorified the ocker brand of Aussie masculinity, indicates how the Great Australian Piss-Take has evolved in the intervening years Fifty years ...

The alleged murder of Kumanjayi Walker by a police officer has ignited a legal quandary The trial of the decade – that of Constable Zachary Rolfe, charged with murdering a young Aboriginal man in ...