Patrick McCaughey is a former director of the National Gallery of Victoria and has published widely on Australian art.

Andrew Fuhrmann is an editor and literary critic. He is a researcher in the Digital Studio at the University of Melbourne and has taught at the Victorian College of the Arts.

Kim Mahood is the author of Craft for a Dry Lake, Position Doubtful and the essay ‘Kartiya Are Like Toyotas: White Workers on Australia’s Cultural Frontier’.

Why do some people with Aboriginal ancestry choose not to identify as Indigenous, even when First Nations communities are welcoming? Jan Morris, a Welsh travel writer who knew a thing or two about ...

For Paddy Bedford, the day usually began soon after dawn. Tony Oliver, a former Melbourne gallerist who had worked alongside Bedford for close to a decade since arriving in the East Kimberley in 1998, ...

On April 24, the House Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport released the report of its six-month-long investigation into long COVID. Parliamentary committees are odd ...

Melbourne-based Elizabeth Finkel is a former biochemist who switched to telling the stories of other scientists. She is the former editor of Cosmos magazine.

After the death of her mother, the author reflects on the hold of sugar upon her family’s health and history ...

The danger of misrepresenting new malpractice regulations as muzzling doctors’ opinions On Saturday October 8, The Australian published an op-ed titled: “Health disgrace: bureaucrats in bid to silence ...

I am appalled, but not surprised, by Don Watson’s revelations (‘A New Dusk’, August). Years ago, when New South Wales decided to abolish selective high schools, the late Justice Frank Hutley wrote ...

2. Keep your eyes closed. 3. Turn your head to the left. 4. Say a prayer. 5. Open your eyes. 6. Stare at the empty space on the bed next to you. 7. Accept that she is still gone. 8. Close your eyes. 9 ...

Sir Eugene Goossens was a man who liked a little magic in his life. Sex magic, to be specific. Goossens was a world-famous conductor and composer, a friend of Picasso and Stravinsky. “My heart just ...