Editor-in-chief of The Economist Zanny Minton Beddoes, on what it would take for a permanent end to the fighting, and the future for Ukraine if that can’t be reached. For two-and-a-half years, Ukraine ...

Anthropologist and writer Michelle Jasmin Dimasi on what the families of the Afghan men told her about the alleged crimes of Australian soldiers. A five-minute drive from the cliff where Ben ...

Director of the Australia Institute’s climate and energy program Polly Hemming, on the rhetoric of “nature positivity” and the inaction it hides. Protecting Australia’s environment is a matter of ...

Israel correspondent for The Economist Anshel Pfeffer on where the Middle East is headed, and how, or if, the fighting can end. One year on from the October 7 attacks against Israel, the region is ...

Michael sits down with Attica’s head chef to discuss his new memoir, Uses for Obsession. There are few people in this country as obsessed with understanding the cultural and social potential of ...

Melanie Cheng’s newest novel, The Burrow, stole an evening of my life. I was already a fan of her first two books – short story collection Australia Day and her first novel, Room for a Stranger. She’s ...

Economist and contributor to The Saturday Paper Peter Martin, on the “illusory” discounts and how a Cadbury Caramello Koala helped fuel the outrage. There are hundreds of angry posts on X, TikTok and ...

ABC journalist and host of the Global Roaming podcast Geraldine Doogue, on how the two candidates are using their roots to appeal to voters in very different ways. As much as they would hate to admit ...

Michael sits down with writer Rumaan Alam for a conversation about his latest novel, Entitlement, and they discuss class, desire, and the influence of Sylvia Plath. Malcolm Knox began his career as a ...

If the US vice-presidential debate was refreshingly civil, the candidates avoided much discussion of domestic and ...

Henry James is reputed to have said that when you tell a dream, you lose a reader. I’ve never been convinced of that view. But then, I grew up on the vision stories of the Old Testament: Jacob ...

Media stories about Alice Springs emphasise lawlessness and dysfunction, but on the ground it is a community let down by successive government failures “They did this, not us!” It’s what Aunty Pat ...