Jason Molina was raised in a trailer park on the edge of Lake Erie, and he remembered icy rain, low granite skies and his ...

Special correspondent in Canberra for The Saturday Paper Jason Koutsoukis on Labor’s war with its old guard. The government led by Anthony Albanese is a timid troupe of shivers looking for a spine to ...

Michael sits down with award-winning Australian writer Robbie Arnott to discuss his new novel, Dusk, which explores loss and redemption and survival in Tasmania’s high country. Almost 15 years ago, ...

Defamation lawyer at Good Company Law Hannah Marshall, on Bruce Lehrmann’s chance of appeal and what it means for Brittany Higgins. According to Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyer Zali Burrows, he is “arguably ...

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 ...

Alice Springs is littered with “For Sale” signs as those who can afford it are packing up and leaving. Punitive government curfews made daily life more challenging, and families struggle to see a ...

In the second episode of our three part series, Daniel visits the police headquarters to meet the Arrernte woman tasked with one of the most challenging jobs in Alice Springs – to fix the culture ...

Daniel James visits the town at the heart of our nation, to find out how all the interventions, big and small, by governments of all persuasions have led to this point. From afar, Alice Springs is a ...

Columnist for The Saturday Paper Paul Bongiorno on the indirect ways the Middle East conflict could shape life here in Australia – and the outcome of the election. The war in the Middle East 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 ...

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 ...