Australian Army officer and the author of Anzac’s Long Shadow.

Rachel Perkins is a director, writer and founder of Blackfella Films. She leads a foundation that is recording languages and songlines through the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

How can the major parties address the rise of populism in Australia?

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’.

I take Robert Manne’s word for the proposition that the predominant mood among Australian people in our times is against “boat people” (‘Comment: Asylum Seekers’, September 2010); but I question the ...

Lisa Pryor is a journalist and writer. She has worked for the Sydney Morning Herald as a columnist, opinion editor and investigative reporter.

If Nicolas Rothwell is to be believed (‘The Blast Zone’, September 2010), the Aboriginal people of the Western Desert may as well pack their bags and move to the suburbs of Perth (or at least ...

Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis’ ‘Machete’ and Sean Byrne’s ‘The Loved Ones’ “Every time an illegal dances across our border,” says Senator John McLaughlin (Robert de Niro) at a rally, “it is an ...

How a novel’s opening line reflected the author’s dissonance as a teenage reader, and remains an apt tribute to the enduring power of fiction Recently I was chatting with a niece, and we got into a ...

Dr Karen Hitchcock’s article on obesity was a huge breath of fresh air (‘Fat City’, March). This subject has been examined intensively in the lay and scientific press in the past decade but the ...