Nine out of 10 GP visits will be free by 2030 under an $8.5bn Labor policy that will be the centrepiece of its re-election pitch, which was quickly matched by the opposition.

Robert Lukins’ novel Somebody Down There Likes Me shows there’s no need to eat the rich: left to their own devices, they will eat themselves. Thanks to their multigenerational, multibillion-dollar ...

The AFL season begins in a couple of weeks, and my daughter, somehow sensitive to this, told me recently Fremantle could “win it”. I didn’t invite her prediction, nor do I understand where it came ...

Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...

In news rooms, board rooms and electoral offices around the country, there's one question driving everyone insane: when is Anthony Albanese going to call the election? Nervous backbenchers are willing ...

of collapse. Bee stings are intact, and dead bees are lighter than breath. for the whisper of its true name. To live and die together to serve someone else’s propaganda. If the dying is not beautiful, ...

In 2007, Prime Minister John Howard said he was sorry. It was November and he was facing an election, and the Reserve Bank of Australia had just raised interest rates. “I would say to the borrowers of ...

Before he took the stage at ASIO headquarters in Canberra on Wednesday night, a tracking camera beamed Mike Burgess’s lone silhouette walking along a shadowy corridor onto a giant screen inside the ...

“The lyric can be an elusive form / of self-reflection,” writes Šime Knežević in his first full-length collection of poetry, In Your Dreams. It’s a fitting assessment: in these quiet, roving, reticent ...

The nation’s premier arts body, Creative Australia, is in turmoil, now largely shuttered, and, it’s understood, lawyers have been engaged. After one article in a News Corp newspaper, a set of ...

In its 50 years on air, Saturday Night Live has become one of the pop cultural industrial complex’s niftiest tools. It can create comedy superstars – as it did with Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell and ...

This year’s zucchini harvest was a total sausage fest – nothing but males. With a very wet summer, I watched in hope as hundreds of flowers bloomed. Then all of our bees died. The concept of “helping” ...