Fiona Harari is a journalist and television producer. She is the author of A Tragedy in Two Acts: Marcus Einfeld and Teresa Brennan.

Luke Clarke couldn’t even make the cut for his school’s drama class, but this weekend he and his brother, Tom, will play the leads in a period piece before 3000 people – less a case of jobs for the ...

Peter Mares is the presenter of The National Interest on ABC Radio National and the author of Borderline: Australia’s Response to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Wake of the Tampa.

A new collection of the late Australian’s observationally rich novellas and short stories cements her reputation as one of our major prose stylists ...

Australian Army officer and the author of Anzac’s Long Shadow.

One hot afternoon in February 2014, in the pleasant Victorian township of Tyabb, south-east of Melbourne, an 11-year-old boy called Luke Batty was playing in the nets after cricket practice with his ...

Rachel Perkins is a director, writer and founder of Blackfella Films. She leads a foundation that is recording languages and songlines through the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Harry Kakavas was one of Australia’s top real-estate salesmen. He made a fortune selling houses on the Gold Coast. He was also one of Australia’s biggest gamblers. In 14 months from June 2005 Kakavas ...

Bec brings drinks to the four-seater lunch table in the Queen Adelaide dining room, swaying with the train as she puts them down. She’s newish. “Grazie mille! Thank you,” says Tim Fischer, Australia’s ...

How can the major parties address the rise of populism in Australia?

Ann Arnold is a journalist with ABC Radio National.

Say what you like about Satan, but he does at least give a fair price for souls. Faust got 24 years of worldly knowledge and pleasure in exchange for his; Robert Johnson mastered the blues overnight.