What was hoped to be a new wave of body positivity on the catwalks of the world’s fashion capitals is being swamped by a tide of Ozempic.

As the government moved this week to kill off its own environmental reform, there is anger and disappointment within Labor’s ranks over the sacrifice to economic interests.

A consultancy is in receivership and a senior public servant has described himself as ‘not fit-for-duty’ after a series of troubled contracts was awarded to reform Meals on Wheels.

How a rank and incompetent unknown came to take the pitch in an English Premier League match remains the stuff of sporting legend.

Mandy Beaumont’s 2022 debut novel, The Furies, is a powerful account of a young woman, maltreated from childhood, who decides she has had enough. Cynthia becomes a “woman about to start a mighty war”.

With Robert F. Kennedy Jr nearing confirmation as US health secretary, Australian scientists are already feeling the effects ...

As the government pushes an electoral reform bill criticised for favouring the major parties, the latest figures show they jointly reaped almost $150 million in donations last year.

In the tradition of the late, great Mungo MacCallum, LR tries to infuse his puzzles with humour, wordplay and poetry to give readers plenty of “Aha!” moments. They will be accessible, but always with ...

American tariffs spark China retaliation. US eyes Ukraine’s rare earth minerals. Musk launches public sector purge.

As Victorian Opera’s fine production demonstrates, the heart of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies is the paradox of nostalgia.

The kind of knowledge, the knowing, at the heart of Madeleine Ryan’s second novel is bodily, almost instinctual. It is knowledge that is deeply held and felt, but difficult to pin down or explain or ...

Emma Rice’s musical theatre adaptation of Wuthering Heights features a finale where the orphan Hareton – a silent, traumatised man – suddenly emerges sporting a cute kitchen apron over his bare torso.