As Brittany Higgins faces the irony that she and her attacker will likely both be bankrupted, her inner circle reflects on ...

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.

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.

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

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

The prime minister has taken a more nuanced approach to his relationship with the Murdoch press, proving the company no longer has a veto over policy.

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 ...

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 ...