Jill Jolliffe is a journalist who has reported on the Balibo Five story for more than 35 years. She has been a correspondent for the Guardian and the BBC. She is the author of Finding Santana and ...

Michelle de Kretser is the author of The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case and The Lost Dog, which won the NSW Premier’s Book of the Year Award and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.

How the Murdoch media obliterated the Liberal Party’s centre and its foreseeable future ...

Judith Brett is an emeritus professor of politics at La Trobe University. Her latest book is Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life.

Arnold Zable is an educator and a human rights advocate. He has written several books, including Cafe Scheherazade, Jewels and Ashes, The Fig Tree, Scraps of Heaven and Sea of Many Returns.

Scott Morrison’s book eschews any reckoning with his prime ministership in favour of simplistic evangelism and a pitch to American employers ...

Stephanie Bishop is a professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Her latest novel is The Anniversary.

James Button is a former Fairfax journalist and the author of Speechless: A Year in My Father’s Business and Comeback: The Fall and Rise of Geelong.

John Birmingham is an author, a columnist and a journalist. His books include He Died With a Felafel in His Hand and Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney.

A Te Aroha cowboy and his secret part in training the 1985 Melbourne Cup winner ...

Kim Williams is the chair of the Sydney Opera House Trust and former chief executive of News Corp Australia.

The undermining of a highly credible think tank dedicated to bettering Australia’s understanding of China suggests a geopolitical naivety among our leaders and a lack of confidence in our role in the ...