When Kevin Rudd was returned to the leadership of the Labor Party, quite a lot of voters were pleased. This was gratifying to the party chieftains, but the person they watched most anxiously was not ...

A Bellini Madonna and some lines from Nabokov symbolise the broadcaster’s dedication to the transcendence and beauty of art “I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, ...

Jacques Audiard’s ‘A Prophet’ and John Hillcoat’s ‘The Road’ Malik is a mutt, of Corsican and Arabic descent. His Muslim cousins want nothing to do with him, while the Corsicans think he’s a “dirty ...

They were new chums, fresh off the boat. Daisy May O'Dwyer was 20, the porcelain-skinned daughter of a drunkard doctor from Cashel. Edwin Henry Murrant, a year younger, was English and claimed to be ...

If you think so, then the white goddess has a darker alter ego in her sister Dannii, an altogether more alarming figure – Parvati perhaps, her four arms flailing as she straddles a lion or tiger, her ...

The late Roald Dahl, who was born 100 years ago this month, had many qualities that made him an outstanding children’s writer, including an eccentric sort of humour, an acute sense of fairness and a ...

Every few weeks, unusual packages arrive by post at the University of Adelaide. Sent by dutiful citizen scientists across Australia, they contain biological material that has shed light on the ...

How creating sculpture for animals is transforming wildlife conservation and the art world At the end of winter, I came across a little penguin on our local beach. It was the first penguin I had seen ...

It was the place where Manning first began intuiting social class, a theme that would obsessively dominate his history of ...

Almost a century later, Scandinavian timber companies began buying up vast parcels of Portuguese land to grow Eucalyptus globulus, or blue gums, to pulp for paper. The vast plantations crippled ...