Nine out of 10 GP visits will be free by 2030 under an $8.5bn Labor policy that will be the centrepiece of its re-election pitch, which was quickly matched by the opposition.

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 ...

Robert Lukins’ novel Somebody Down There Likes Me shows there’s no need to eat the rich: left to their own devices, they will eat themselves. Thanks to their multigenerational, multibillion-dollar ...

of collapse. Bee stings are intact, and dead bees are lighter than breath. for the whisper of its true name. To live and die together to serve someone else’s propaganda. If the dying is not beautiful, ...

Before he took the stage at ASIO headquarters in Canberra on Wednesday night, a tracking camera beamed Mike Burgess’s lone silhouette walking along a shadowy corridor onto a giant screen inside the ...

“The lyric can be an elusive form / of self-reflection,” writes Šime Knežević in his first full-length collection of poetry, In Your Dreams. It’s a fitting assessment: in these quiet, roving, reticent ...

Maryrose Cuskelly’s second novel, The Campers, has all the hallmarks of a television miniseries. It’s tense yet humorous and pushes the right buttons, from white middle-class privilege to female ...

A trove of court documents on Rupert Murdoch’s failed attempt to give Lachlan control of the media empire exposes fears that ...

Ukraine: The United States held talks with Russia on Tuesday about the future of Ukraine after making a series of spectacular ...

An interest-rate cut seems like a positive start for a government heading into an election campaign – that is not how ...