Last year, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer left the United States to settle in Australia. This is the story of why.

A three-week journey following Ernest Shackleton’s epic voyage to save his crew is a powerful experience of the most remote place on Earth.

This year marked 50 years since parliament passed the Whitlam government’s Australia Council Act 1975. Whitlam’s cultural ...

The Saturday Paper ’s quick crossword is compiled by Liam Runnalls (LR), who also sets the weekend cryptic. Requiring less lateral thinking than the cryptic, and less general knowledge than the quiz, ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has vowed to implement new hate speech laws in an effort to combat anti-Semitism in the wake of the Bondi Beach mass shooting. The new laws will target “those who ...

The soundtrack to KPop Demon Hunters – a Netflix film about a K-pop group that fights demons through their music – spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the Aria charts this year, longer than anyone not named ...

Labor and the Coalition will establish a joint House and Senate committee on defence to review AUKUS, with Greens and crossbench members not included. Anthony Albanese and Sussan Ley are planning to ...

Today, The Saturday Paper published Behrouz Boochani's poetic manifesto, A Letter From Manus Island. To mark this piece, and Behrouz's contribution to public discourse while held on Manus, the essay ...

They say old politicians are like old actors. They revive under the spotlight. Exhibit A, John Howard. The coming week will mark the 20th anniversary of his election as prime minister, and suddenly he ...

Just days out from the 1996 election, Jim Barron, then Queensland state director of the Liberal Party, decided he had to disendorse one of the party’s candidates. Her name was Pauline Hanson and, says ...

When global consulting firm Nous Group arrives at a university, the company blueprint is always the same: weaken the academe, centralise power and cut staff. The Nous Group model, “Renew”, has most ...