"The natural landscape is a common setting and often a frightening place - one that functions by its own logic and is hostile to outsiders." Dive into this brief history of the Australian New Wave era ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Ramona Koval: One of the joys of the job that I do is sometimes I'm introducing myself as well as you ...

Australian Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has written a much-publicised essay, entitled "The Global Financial Crisis". [1] The essay's significance, however, resides not in any economic insights, but ...

In July 2017, new research was published that pushed the opening chapters of Australian history back to 65,000 years ago. It is the latest development in a time revolution that has gripped the nation ...

Marian Sawer is a Chief Investigator on ARC Linkage Project LP100200304 - Women and Leadership in a Century of Australian Democracy. Election 2013 Essays: As the federal election campaign draws to a ...

Best Australian Essays is always worth reading if you are interested in Australian writing. This year's guest editor is writer and human rights advocate David Marr. Usually the editor agonises over a ...

The literature of a nation is, then, the song of that old, tribal coming-to-be retooled for a world of sovereign states, one that notates collective character and even gestures towards ­national ...