At first glance Moonee Ponds, a suburb in the north of Melbourne on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land, is all suburban brick homes, main roads and supermarkets. But 10 minutes’ walk from the train station, ...

The minute I was accepted into medical school I became, in the eyes of my friends and family, a professor of every clinical specialty, with a sideline in veterinary medicine. The calls started almost ...

The horror of Nazi officialdom is laid bare in Matti Geschonneck’s latest film I moved to Berlin in 2007 and, needing work, spent my first few months in the city painting the guest rooms of a newly ...

Revisiting The Misfits, Arthur Miller’s gift to his wife Marilyn Monroe, which roped in Hollywood’s fading luminaries for a ...

It’s tempting to think Pauline Hanson chose Malcolm Roberts because he looks like a puppet. Barely five feet tall, One Nation’s second senator for Queensland perches beside me on a Parliament House ...

We are tree-changers who purchased part of a subdivision of a 4000-acre grazing property near Murrurundi, New South Wales, 11 years ago. The entire 4000 acres had been over-grazed, and it was so ...

An oral history of the Warwick & Joanne Capper ‘Penthouse’ shoot Like the 1960s, the 1990s were a break-out period for sexuality in pop culture. Basic Instinct, topless Calvin Klein ads and widespread ...

The first poem I read by Luke Morcom is entitled ‘My Loving Wife’. In the first three stanzas, a man sings in praise of his new spouse, counting the ways that he loves her. But then, in the final two ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House is a persuasive reminder that the US has always been a less than perfect democracy ...

I first learned of Captain Moonlite from the historian Graham Willett. In Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne, a book Willett co-edited, Moonlite features “as the bushranger most likely to qualify as ...

The ‘dog philosopher-king’ who teaches the owners rather than training the pets You hear Robert’s group before you see them: the cacophony of barking rings out through Sydney’s Centennial Park. If you ...