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 ...

With the economy dominating this election campaign, Labor insiders say they can shake voters’ traditional perceptions of the Coalition as the stronger steward.

Independent campaigns were structured around an April 12 election – and the decision to go later has added roughly $250,000 to required spending in each seat.

Broken after losing his heavyweight title to Muhammad Ali in 1974, boxer George Foreman found God and a new audience as a television entrepreneur.

As Australia loses research funding following a Trump crackdown, academics believe the government has failed universities by rejecting multiple invitations to join Europe’s largest fund.

The Victorian Auditor-General’s Office has long suffered accusations of being a toxic workplace, and staff wonder when this will be addressed by parliament.

In deciding whether to award a massive Australian naval contract to Japan or to Germany, the Australian government must carefully weigh both competing strengths and strategic relationships.

Maree Reedman | was longlisted last year in the inaugural Heroica Poetry Prize and won the Grieve Project In Memoriam: Antonia Buono Award for her poem “Bruce Dances with His Mother”.

A checkered Harlequin, perhaps; even a faded Pierrot. But not a chameleon. The title of Robert Dessaix’s “memoir of art, travel, ideas and love” suggests a life lived under the guise of various ...

The author worked for years on her chosen strategy to divert her children from the damaging pursuit of screens and social media. A near-tragedy finally focused them.

The age-old trees that quietly persist in Tasmania’s forests are the subject of Andrew Darby’s lyrical The Ancients: Discovering the world’s oldest surviving trees in wild Tasmania. The devastating ...

The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese plans to head to Government House this morning to call a May 3 federal election. Albanese ...