The former social justice commissioner was 53 when she first spoke to her half-brother and began healing her divided family. But her aspirations for reconciliation go much further ...

At just 27, Mohamed Semra is not your average mayor. He overcame a childhood stutter and a viral moment in a Melbourne Apple Store to make political history – and he is just getting started.

The former PM can be eloquent and erudite about Australia – but he has a very particular conception of what this nation is and how it came to be ...

Look, you’re not supposed to know this, but Tony Abbott’s book, Australia: A History, was originally going to be called something else.

The job of leading the country has undoubtedly grown more challenging in the past quarter century. But much of that has been ...

There is a modern artefact whose sole purpose is to neatly encapsulate the worries, the joys, the sensations of everyday life ...

While some regions (unwisely) consider suspending gas taxes, a growing movement in Australia demands oil companies pay their fair share.

The 9th of May is a beautiful time of the year, with breezy, high-skied blue days around Australia. It is also a date that resonates in Australian civic history.

The NSW Literary Awards honoured a mix of established names and breakout voices on Monday night.

Australia’s energy debate is still being conducted as though we are living in the industrial logic of the early 2000s.

Unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood should reasonably be interpreted by Australians as rewarding the worst types of terror.

One Nation broke its parliamentary silence to talk about culture wars and political barneys. But not everything went as ...