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

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

How tragic historical deaths reveal changing perceptions of perinatal depression, and why clinical diagnoses still fall short of people’s experiences On a gloomy Melbourne afternoon, three days after ...

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 ...