Brittany Higgins chose not to watch the full bench of the Federal Court hand down its ruling on Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation appeal on the morning of December 3. She’d had enough of listening, yet ...

The Senate’s year-long inquiry into university governance has come to an end with the release of its final report. With the sector in crisis, the inquiry’s public hearings were often highly robust ...

The Senate’s year-long inquiry into the governance of universities has concluded with a grim picture of flawed and avoidant leadership and serious questions about conduct and accountability. The power ...

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 ...

ANALYSIS: Having finally persuaded most voters that it is the better economic manager, Labor is well placed to pursue an obvious solution to the problems to come.

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

As the country attempts to make sense of the massacre at Bondi Beach, the principal reactions are a mix of fear, sorrow and anger.

The new National Children’s Commissioner cites among her top concerns an increasingly draconian criminal justice system and improvements to the youth social media ban.

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 ...