Low-budget Australian New Wave throwbacks The Surfer and Dangerous Animals deliver dark stories of violent parochialism on ...

Where a perpetually bloated and red-faced Jax spent most of the first season berating Brittany for drinking too much, he’s ...

The author’s first novel since ‘Jasper Jones’ raises questions about who should tell contemporary trans stories At age seven, Sam Watson plays a honeybee in a school performance, fitting perfectly ...

Its one-liners are firmly entrenched in the national lexicon, but, a quarter of a century later, what does the classic film tell us about Australia? Charles “Bud” Tingwell’s wife of 45 years, Audrey, ...

Accurate or not, Hirst’s words were powerful. They still are. They speak of a nation still looking for its “republican moment”, and still seeking new symbols, songs and laws, to replace an old ...

David Baker is a history and science writer who holds the world’s first PhD in Big History. He wrote the YouTube series Crash Course Big History, hosted by John and Hank Green.

Jane Rawson is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist who usually writes about the environment. Her most recent book is From the Wreck.

Alzheimer’s drives the narrative of Rachel Khong’s ‘Goodbye, Vitamin’ but it isn’t the novel’s focus ...

Just a short drive from the Portuguese university town of Coimbra, in Vale de Canas, a sea of eucalypts extends to the horizon in all directions. The tallest tree in Europe sprouted here 120 years ago ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...