Max Ogden is a lifelong unionist, including a career as an industrial officer at the ACTU between 1988 and 2000. He is the author of Long View From the Left.

The government’s climate-action agenda has its predictable detractors, but the current decentralised approach is risking a ...

Lena Dunham’s new rom-com series mines her life with her British musician husband, but the fun and froth gives way to an ...

Kevin Macdonald’s documentary inadvertently downplays Houston’s impact on pop music history There’s a piece of handycam footage in Kevin Macdonald’s new documentary, Whitney, that gives the film, ...

‘Mira Gojak / Elizabeth Newman’ illustrates the possibilities for curated shows in commercial galleries The curated exhibition is often seen as the domain of the non-commercial gallery or large-scale ...

How the COVID-19 crisis could be catastrophic for Australia’s already vulnerable arts sector The global coronavirus pandemic is escalating so rapidly that an observation made in the morning is likely ...

Things move at a particular pace in Canada, even in Toronto, its largest metropolis (“You know, this isn’t New York,” someone admonished me as I crossed a street on a red), and even at the Toronto ...

Mile 22 marks the fourth collaboration between Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg, an actor turned Michael Mann-protégé whose previous films as a director have demonstrated his admiration for the American ...

Does anyone remember the first time they heard Aretha Franklin singing “Respect”? It is a song that arrives like a memory already formed. Franklin, too, is like that, and her death last week at the ...

A walk with ecologist Alison Pouliot exploring the ways fungi up-end our understanding of the natural world I’m walking in the Wombat State Forest in central Victoria with Alison Pouliot, an ecologist ...

The RBA is discovering that providing people with more knowledge about its decisions can be hazardous Finance, like politics, runs on information. There’s the kind that’s provided officially, and then ...

The two-yearly TarraWarra International, currently on display at the TarraWarra Museum of Art, in Victoria’s Yarra Valley, is not strictly concerned with international art, or at least not solely.