How long-distance running changed the life of the former Australian of the Year (and earnt her a record win in an ultramarathon) ...
“When you feel you are nothing but a propagandist, and you feel like it’s going to consume all of you, you need to even it out and act out,” says Pavel Talankin, the “Mr Nobody” of the film’s title, ...
From Kurt’s guitar to JFK’s rocking chair, the remarkable collection of memorabilia amassed by the late billionaire Jim Irsay goes under the hammer ...
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Little, proud

The outgoing Nationals leader’s self-aggrandising self-appraisal hasn’t gone over well with his colleagues ...
Remembering the late influential artist whose materials and practices examined what makes art, sometimes leading to awkward assessments she embraced ...
If Barack Obama’s comments about aliens were speculative, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell had a lifetime’s cosmic experience behind his convictions Like President Obama, Edgar Mitchell believed in ...
A new Australian novelist skewers her nation’s familial fault lines, while a veteran British writer skewers his whole damn country I am the executor of my parents’ will – not by choice, but by the ...
It’s a steaming hot morning at a padel centre in Canggu, a region in Bali just north of Kuta. I’m sweating buckets already and haven’t even hit a ball. I’m here for a lesson at the centre that has ...
The goons were circling and my friend was unwell. A casualty that evening of booze and acid, Kelly’s body was not as cooperative as I needed it to be: the beer bottles were exploding around us now, ...
David Cronenberg is one of those filmmakers who has, across a storied career, built up a bank of images and ideas, moments and atmospheres that have penetrated generations of dreamscapes. Flashes of ...