The latest iteration of the Marrakech International Film Festival – the Arab world’s most important – highlights the triumphs ...

ANALYSIS: Murray Watt’s environmental reforms will do little to protect the environment and a lot to benefit big business.

Pinchgut Opera’s new realisation of Handel’s Messiah strips it back to its first scoring in 1742 – and it is an undiluted joy ...

Essays are easy. Fiction is hard,” says British writer Zadie Smith in an interview reproduced in Dead and Alive, her fourth ...

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This week the Victorian government passed youth crime laws that will see children face adult courts and sentencing – reforms ...

Restructures across all levels of arts funding have deprived institutions of money and led some to scale back their ambitions or even close.

Hundreds die in Indonesian flooding. Hong Kong arrests over high-rise fire criticism. Hegseth denies boat strike.

Calls grow for the resignation of  UTS vice-chancellor Andrew Parfitt, who knew of the KPMG-produced list targeting ‘underperforming’ staff even as his office denied it existed.

Plans floated include a number of Queensland LNG producers supplying gas to the domestic market in exchange for export ...

Facebook and Instagram have begun shutting down half a million Australian accounts of users aged under 16, in compliance with ...

Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure ...