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 ...

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 ...

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.

Emma Seligman’s funny but tense film is a triumph of writing and performance over spectacle People who don’t work within the film industry or keep abreast of its dealings, people who just go to the ...

Roy Morgan Research (est. 1941) is the only Australian-owned independent polling company not owned by a media organisation, and at the last federal election theirs was the most accurate of the four ...

It’s raining in Sydney, and Cockatoo Island has been flooding. But that hasn’t put a dampener on the crowds trooping off ferries from Circular Quay. Over the past decade, the largest island in Sydney ...

Nuanced intricacy is Elizabeth Strout’s hallmark. She knows the emotional weight of everything, animate and inanimate. Strout won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 with Olive Kitteridge, a novel in 13 ...

Jen Cloher’s self-titled album is a unique take on the trials of a touring musician There’s a long tradition of rock musicians writing songs about the difficulty of life on the road. AC/DC’s ‘Highway ...