Special correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Jason Koutsoukis, on Robert Nioa’s arms empire and the impact he’ll have on Australian defence policy. As Trump’s radical reshaping of the US pulls into ...

Remembering lessons in the art of derailing and the power of obfuscation at a Year 10 Model United Nations day ...

Melbourne’s on-again off-again embrace of street art is now tested by the trial of the alleged artist behind ‘Pam the Bird’ “Now,” begins Jonathan Barreiro, the defence barrister leaning close to the ...

First, a warning. This week’s conversation with Sonia Orchard is about sexual assault and abuse. It’s about the failures – social, structural, legal – that entrench and prolong the trauma for victim ...

National correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe, on what is happening in Tasmanian waters – and how it will impact the upcoming election. Warmer waters, disease and antibiotics have pushed ...

Associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University David Szakonyi, on what Vladimir Putin is offering Trump, and the figures behind the Russian deal.

When Arthur Sinodinos arrived in Washington as Australia’s ambassador to the United States in 2020, he was told the best way to get things done with Donald Trump was to go straight to the person in ...

In Andrea Goldsmith’s ninth and latest novel, The Buried Life, she unpicks the relationships between people and the undercurrents of doubt and faith that define a life. Michael chats with Rachel about ...

Poets, like mathematicians, can burst fully formed into song (or into differential calculus) in late adolescence. Novelists tend to take further study in the school of life. Even coming-of-age novels ...

A new production of ‘Macbeth’ starring David Tennant is an opportunity to consider if it might provide the quintessential tragic role ...

With an election imminent, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese talks up his first-term achievements while acknowledging voter disgruntlement ...