A personal reflection on Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, 30 years after its drug-fuelled repugnance and ‘Cool Britannia’ sheen ...
Body-horror auteur David Cronenberg returned to favoured themes in 2024, in a film unsentimentally focused centred on grief ...
The Liberals planning to bring down their first female leader are aware of the optics, but are more afraid of plunging ...
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Faced with losing more than just their frontbench spots, some Nationals are beginning to wonder if all this drama was such a good move. And, given time to reassess after the shock of their partners ...
It is becoming more and more apparent that Instagram is now close to unusable. AI slop, ads, annoying influencers and algorithmic content in your feed that you didn’t sign up for – while you’re just ...
Elon Musk’s time management is so almighty that if he rose from the dead, he’d do it in hours, not days – or so it was claimed when a Grok user recently prompted the chatbot for a direct comparison: ...
The author is sceptical of footballer Eric Cantona’s claims to have baited the media with a meaningless comment following his infamous kung-fu kick of a punter ...
With the United States having vacated the field, the world’s leading infectious disease experts gathered in Melbourne to discuss collaborative efforts to identify and combat the next pandemic ...
After delivering his 1985 masterpiece on the surreal barbarity of war, Come and See, Russian director Elem Klimov’s career ended in frustration It was to be called Kill Hitler, but Soviet censors ...
As Trump’s America increasingly unsettles global diplomacy, defence chief Greg Moriarty is an experienced choice as Australia’s new ambassador As soon as the rumours started last year that Kevin Rudd ...