Whether the casting of a woman as Brutus, the tyrant-killer, is significant is a question best left to Bell Shakespeare's audience
Mar 18 2026
10 mins
Leonardo’s teacher, students and contemporaries painted voluptuous nudes at every opportunity, yet the man Hollywood has proclaimed as gay was a positive prude by comparison
Mar 18 2026
7 mins
Karl Stefanovic, alone amongst the celebrities who hawked and hyped the Covid hysteria, has set an example by apologising for stoking the panic
Mar 17 2026
6 mins
Paul Ehrlich’s neo-Malthusian doom-mongering has been proven wrong, yet it remains the conventional wisdom
Mar 17 2026
10 mins
NEWS
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Our premier cultural institutions are responding to Federation's 125th anniversary with an almost pathological and muted indifferenceMarch 17, 2026
15 mins
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Only rent-seekers, the gullible and Chris Bowen can claim with a straight face that solar is cheap, practical and the futureMarch 17, 2026
30 mins
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Taxing paper profits is irrational, cumbersome and quite likely unworkable, but its far greater wrong is legalising government thieveryMarch 16, 2026
11 mins
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The teal campaign in Farrer has wrapped itself in One Nation's traditional colour. If you can't beat 'em, impersonate 'emMarch 16, 2026
5 mins
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Espionage story, family story, incredible story -- that's the essence of Victor and Frances Metianen's journey from suburban Sydney to the dark world of Stalin's workers' paradiseMarch 16, 2026
15 mins
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Fred Paterson, the only Communist ever elected in Australia, was a thorn in Queensland Labor's side. A policeman's truncheon was the applied remedyMarch 15, 2026
5 mins
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Now as always, the leftist demeanour of so-called 'mainstream media' is a force for spreading alarm and despondencyMarch 15, 2026
5 mins
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"Catholics take Natural Law more seriously than Anglicans, who have fallen prey to the lie that Synods can legislate the Church’s faith"March 15, 2026
16 mins
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Kalumburu is one side of the modern frontier, the kind that lets you in, feeds you, and forgives your fear. On the other side is OombulgurriMarch 14, 2026
8 mins
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We followed Mohamed into Tut's burial chamber. He did his best but suffered a guide’s quandary – too much detail for some of us, and too little for othersMarch 14, 2026
7 mins
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'What offended him was not a lack of quality, but of purpose. He simply couldn’t tolerate things that remained forever and intentionally ambiguous'March 14, 2026
15 mins
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At Bondi the PM confronted a tragedy requiring a careful choice of words. As usual, his tin ear, bland tone, and wait-and-see approach shunned responsibilityMarch 13, 2026
14 mins
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We need to worry when the publicly funded guardians of our cultural legacy turn out to be its most dangerous enemiesMarch 13, 2026
7 mins
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The hatred of self and history the Left promotes can be the first step to the self-destruction of societies as well as individualsMarch 13, 2026
10 mins
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As a declared critic of Donald Trump's policies and conduct, indulge me to note that while his admirers cheered the initial strikes on Iran, two weeks later the evidence isn't so clearMarch 12, 2026
16 mins
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The new political class delights in preening and hollow displays of virtue, urgency and enlightenment. That's what makes the woman behind One Nation so differentMarch 12, 2026
10 mins
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After October 7 and the more recent horrors of Bondi, the Magen David's power enduresMarch 12, 2026
4 mins
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We were assured the so-called ‘right to die’ would never become a State-endorsed duty to die. But now, just look at CanadaMarch 12, 2026
25 mins
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Switch from preaching the Gospel to promoting the careers of feminists and gays and you have the Church's problem in a nutshellMarch 11, 2026
16 mins
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The Adelaide plot twist, a predictable one, was the revelation Abdel-Fattah et al are themselves avid cancellers, so long as Zionists are the targetMarch 11, 2026
12 mins
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Chants from once-distant conflicts now echo in the cities of Europe and Australia. None hear them louder than the politicians most determined to ignore themMarch 11, 2026
6 mins
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Jacques Chirac put it best in hailing Zola as the 'great writer who, taking every risk ... even his own life ... put his talent to the service of truth'March 11, 2026
16 mins
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Once recognised, native title is never revisited. In practical terms a determination operates indefinitely, encumbering land in perpetuity to the profit of none but lawyers and activistsMarch 10, 2026
15 mins
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"It’s only just started. The 'final batch' of Epstein’s emails has just been published. Very few people believe it will prove to be the final batch"March 10, 2026
10 mins
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AI will amplify whatever we bring to it. The choice of what gets amplified is oursMarch 9, 2026
11 mins
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Anglican Archbishop Kanishka Raffel's condemnation of One Nation was the sort of ill-informed venture into politics one expects of the Council of ImamsMarch 9, 2026
6 mins
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To be selected for the text list, it is now no longer good enough to be left wing. If an author is male or white he may not make the cutMarch 9, 2026
14 mins
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Without Max Brod’s bold intervention and tireless efforts, Kafka’s work would have been relegated to a footnote in historyMarch 8, 2026
8 mins
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Author Kelefa Sanneh set himself the tall task of defining and explaining popular music's seven genres. He has not laboured in vainMarch 8, 2026
8 mins
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If Trump were to come up with a cure for cancer his critics would shriek about an evil plan to put doctors and nurses out of workMarch 8, 2026
7 mins
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Leonardo’s teacher, students and contemporaries painted voluptuous nudes at every opportunity, yet the man Hollywood has proclaimed as gay was a positive prude by comparison
March 18, 2026
9 mins
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"I use the opera’s story to tell the orchestra how I want them to play. I say, 'The tenor is being murdered with an axe. So, murder the tenor'.”March 5, 2026
15 mins
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One the many obstacles she had to overcome was a psychiatrist husband who believed the musical muse in women was a sign of undeniable mental illnessMarch 4, 2026
16 mins
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Along with other Transylvanian-born composers such as György Ligeti and Péter Eötvös, Kurtág perpetuated the stylistic legacies of Bartók and Kodály.February 20, 2026
4 mins
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'We would all be very happy,' Beckett wrote to the Swiss sculptor, if he were to design the Godot set. A remarkable collaboration ensuedFebruary 11, 2026
40 mins
Fiction
Dinner for Six
“Well, I had my own small war brewing at the table. I didn’t know what to say and you weren’t doing much to help.”
This week’s Fiction
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The September 2024 issue of our magazine is now available! […]October 2, 2024
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The September 2024 issue of our magazine is now available via our website and in newsagents. You can click here to view the contents. Digital subscribers can enjoy the PDF and online articles now, and print subscribers will receive their hardcopies in the mail.September 2, 2024
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