Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...

First, disclosure. I am not a political pundit but an occasionally outraged amateur. And because I’m not a proper journalist I can tell you who I voted for: a talented independent. In my electorate of ...

Josephine Rowe’s brief and wonderfully elliptical new novel begins with the arrival of the body of a saint in the Kimberley in the years after World War II. A bequest from Norwegian scientist Kaspar ...

When Neige Sinno read Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita at 20, she was unnerved. Though drawn to its subversive content – a literary portrait of a paedophile – she wasn’t expecting to find so much overlap ...

I have no idea where this recipe came from. It’s something I’ve been cooking for decades. This particular version evolved over winter, when the usual variety of coloured fruits becomes limited to ...

Riding his pushy fast out of town, really upset after arguing with his best friend, Angus almost rides into a bloke with a shotgun. Watch where you’re going kid, says the large man. He’s wearing a ...

Former Liberal speaker Andrew Wallace is “uncomfortable with quotas” and says the best person should get the job. He means men (Karen Barlow, “ ‘Sleepwalk into irrelevance’: The Liberal loss explained ...

“These are strange times, my dear, they smell your breath to see if you have spoken of love.” In Shida Bazyar’s The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran, an old Iranian woman recites verses of Persian poetry as ...

Australia’s election season seems decent and inclusive in comparison to the drama we see in America, but was this last one really a repudiation of far-right politics?

Queensland’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors faces a Supreme Court challenge, based on a lack of consultation and ...

Just weeks before massive aged-care reforms are due to take effect, providers are still lobbying for changes to their ...

Sent to Australia under the false assertion they were orphans, adoptees from South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam speak of the ...