The government believes its broken promise on investment incentives will rebalance the housing market and the tax system ...

Les Blank’s on-the-scene documentary on the making of Fitzcarraldo revealed the mad drive of director Werner Herzog ...

This knowledge is what leads an instinctively cautious politician to take a big risk and brazenly break a promise that just a ...

When Finland’s underground nuclear waste facility is sealed for millennia, how can we communicate its dangers to future, ...

One lunchtime in August 1948, Peter Finch was doing Molière on the shop floor at O'Brien's glass factory in Sydney when Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh turned up.

Norman Mailer’s ego was infamously and comically pungent. Like Woody Allen’s neurosis or Warren Beatty’s virility, for decades it was a basic, popularly accepted fact of American public life – a ...

Here’s how infidelity is exposed in Hollywood movies: a private detective, a camera, a man and his mistress. Think of Jack Nicholson’s Jake Gittes in Roman Polanski’s 1974 neo-noir drama Chinatown. In ...

When Health Minister Mark Butler confirmed this week how far the government was now prepared to go to rein in the National Disability Insurance Scheme, he didn’t want to be accused of hiding the truth ...

I haven’t read a book in three weeks. I’ve been travelling with Mum, just the two of us. A loop around England. I am taking her to the places she has spent a lifetime waiting to see. And that she will ...

An encounter with an Australian literary giant sets right a working life of disappointment dealing with small-minded and vindictive celebrities In my late teens, unemployed and unemployable, I ...