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 ...

Classics of Western literature have imagined the condition of the expatriate as fugitive, out of place at home and abroad, uninterested in the past or the future, adrift in a way that makes him – for ...

In January this year, the board of the ABC Alumni group met with the broadcaster’s then managing director, David Anderson. They wanted to discuss several things, but one concern assumed priority: did ...

Geraldine Brooks’s Memorial Days interleaves splintery chapters describing the sudden death of her Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist husband with notes from a solitary mourning trip to Tasmania’s ...

Hamish McDonald has been assiduously reporting and writing on the Asia–Pacific for half a century. His latest book, Melanesia: Travels in Black Oceania, is an introduction for those wanting to learn ...

I have been listening to Geraldton alternative–punk band Ratsalad’s fab 2024 album Bent Trees & Swanny Deez and thinking of their DIY, saying-it-as-you-see-and-feel-it approach. It’s rich with ...

Critical services prescribed by the child sexual abuse royal commission almost a decade ago have been further delayed following a bungled tender process that has resulted in confusion, concern and a ...

Brunch is not to be underestimated, due to the fact that if you are calling it “brunch”. It’s likely an occasion of sorts – otherwise it would just be late breakfast or early lunch. When thinking ...

A few years ago, I decided to take up relief printing and one of my first attempts was a large woodcut of 13 Tasmanian currawongs having a fine time in a tree. It’s a vivid memory from bushwalking in ...

The first week of the campaign has shown up an ill-disciplined opposition leader, with Coalition sources saying they are ...

Medicare has been a centrepiece of every modern election campaign for Labor. In an interview with The Saturday Paper, ...