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Be it Heartbreak High , Neighbours or Kath & Kim , the stories we tell through local television production help to build our sense of national...
Survivors of child sexual abuse and their advocates should have been allowed to quietly demonstrate on Wednesday outside Sydney’s St Mary’s...
On Saturday, authorities in Beijing abruptly announced that Chinese students learning remotely with Australian universities must return to their...
Veronica Nelson never stood a chance. The findings of the inquest into her 2020 death in custody revealed on Monday, as Victorian coroner Simon...
If proof was needed that spending public money on the arts can be a good investment, the once controversial purchase of Jackson Pollock’s Blue poles...
Anyone who works in the public health system knows that managing patient welfare and achieving the best outcomes are delicate and difficult matters....
It was only when images of Alice Springs appeared in the media earlier this month illustrating the town’s crime crisis that national authorities...
The taxi debacle at the Australian Open is not a good look for Melbourne. It is reasonable to expect when leaving a major sporting event in a...
In August 2019, then minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt used the Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture in Darwin to rule out enshrining a Voice...
That was certainly not the opening week organisers of the 2023 Australian Open had hoped for. Two major local drawcards, Nick Kyrgios and Ajla...
Allegations of a toxic work environment at the national health regulator are deeply concerning, but they have not come out of the blue. Evidence has...
Residents affected by the October flooding in Maribyrnong – some of whom are yet to return to their homes – might well have expected Melbourne...
China revealed this week that it had reached a significant milestone: its population now appears to be shrinking. On Tuesday, its National Bureau of...
The push by Maribyrnong City Council to protect about 900 interwar and postwar homes in West Footscray and surrounding suburbs might seem surprising....
The Australian Open Tennis which starts today will mark a welcome return to normalcy after three years of bushfires, pandemic and the furore last year...
Every Australian should feel deeply unsettled by Test cricketer Usman Khawaja’s observations about his experiences in this country as an aspiring...
Job well done is probably how Anthony Albanese feels about his two-day trip to Papua New Guinea this week. On Thursday, Australia and PNG issued a...
When the Albanese government last year legislated its carbon emissions reduction targets, one of the main criticisms was that there was no clear road...
The unexpected death of Cardinal George Pell, aged 81, on Tuesday prompted two conflicting narratives. Tony Abbott remembered him as a saint of our...
Probably the kindest thing anybody could say about myki is that, more than a decade after its beleaguered roll-out, it now works fine. Our public...
For fans of Australian cricket this is something of a halcyon age. A crop of new talent, old stars forgiven and resurrected, relative stability in the...
In its relatively brief history, Melbourne has become a truly vibrant and mostly beautiful city. Fed by recurrent waves of migration, it is now widely...
On Wednesday, with the United States House of Representatives paralysed by its inability to elect a Speaker and get on with the day-to-day business...
As we come to the end of the electric scooter trial in Melbourne’s inner suburbs, with authorities debating whether to keep them permanently, we can...
When Mitch Tambo took to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl stage to perform Silent Night in the Gamilaraay language on Christmas Eve, he summed up the highs...
The snap decision by the Albanese government to impose mandatory COVID testing on passengers from China, starting from Thursday, is bewildering. While...
Recent comments by Emergency Management Minister Murray Watt have reignited a debate over whether Australians should be relocated from areas prone to...
For many people with mental health issues, the new year will be an especially difficult time. From January 1, the federal government has ended a...
As he wakes on New Year’s Day, our 31st prime minister has many reasons to be cheerful. Anthony Norman Albanese’s successes of 2022 since...
When nine-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic fronted the media this week in Adelaide he appeared relaxed and upbeat. In response to the...
China was the world’s ticking COVID time bomb. After nearly three years shut off from the rest of us, its strict enforcement of COVID-zero policies...
It’s a predicament that no political party wants to confront: a demographic dead end. At November’s state election, the Liberal Party won less...
“We want all Afghans, from all walks of life, to see themselves in a future Islamic system with a responsible government that serves and is...
This year has been dominated by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine – but despite 10 months of fighting there is no sign...
Boxing Day at the cricket is one of Melbourne’s secular feast days, along with the AFL grand final and the Melbourne Cup. Throughout Australia’s...
The day before Christmas. For many it’s the beginning of the holiday season, when celebratory provisions are bought and prepared, gifts are wrapped,...
Raising the age of criminal responsibility has been debated in Australia for years. As it stands in Victoria, under some circumstances, children as...
Before entering the White House, former US president Donald Trump boasted that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and...
A hat-trick for Kylian Mbappe and it wasn’t enough. Victory for Lionel Messi in his fifth, and surely his final, World Cup. On Monday morning, we...
Tolstoy was wrong. Unhappy families are all pretty much the same. For all the rarefied trappings of life in the House of Windsor, many a suburban clan...
Whenever a nation votes to change governments, there is a modicum of anxiety about what the future might bring. The bombast and hyperbole of the...
Despite the Andrews government’s best efforts, it’s a topic that is not going to go away. Drug reform, including the legalisation of marijuana,...
The murder of three people and the deaths of three others at a property in the remote Queensland town of Wieambilla have shocked the nation and raised...
As part of the state Labor government’s 2014 election pitch, one of its key promises was a vast infrastructure rollout. It included the Metro Rail...
There are few logos in Australia better known than that of Medicare. Along with the Prices and Incomes Accord and superannuation reforms, it stands as...
Australia’s ability to learn from its past and its rich reserves of history, art and culture has quietly eroded. The financial neglect of the...
Much of the interest in the royal commission into the illegal debt recovery scheme known as “robo-debt” has focused on the role of politicians....
It was just over a year ago that then-opposition leader Anthony Albanese launched his climate change policy. The big ticket items included a new...