Australia has beaten England in the second Test of the Ashes, with captain Steve Smith exchanging fiery words with opposition bowler Jofra Archer. Chasing 65 runs to win on day four, Australia lost ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended his decision to authorise changes to Communications Minister Anika Wells’s travel plans that resulted in a near $100,000 bill. Albanese approved flight ...

Authorities have declared that bushfires raging in NSW no longer pose a threat to lives or property, after about 20 homes were destroyed over the weekend. On Sunday, the NSW Rural Fire Service said ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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