A new Australian novelist skewers her nation’s familial fault lines, while a veteran British writer skewers his whole damn ...

If Barack Obama’s comments about aliens were speculative, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell had a lifetime’s cosmic ...

The federal government’s toughened-up stance on the Australian women and children stranded in Syria risks legal and electoral fallout ...

Frank Magree is a self-described padel entrepreneur and enthusiast from Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. He had tennis lessons as a child, but as he got older he found he was looking for an ...

A personal reflection on Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, 30 years after its drug-fuelled repugnance and ‘Cool Britannia’ sheen ...

Each evening, using my GPS for guidance, I made my way to Barton Springs. It did not close until 10 o’clock, but by the last hour, when the lifeguards had finished, most people had already left. It ...

A Catholic parish in Perth has foregone the traditional wall of crematorial niches for peaceful chambers enclosed within graceful limestone walls ...

Sixty years ago, the US dropped more than two million tonnes of ordnance on Laos along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, much of which remains unexploded to this day, a terrible legacy endangering lives and requ ...

Preparing to leave a beloved country acreage revives memories of an intrepid schoolteacher leading her charges through bushland to learn about the world ...