Max Ogden is a lifelong unionist, including a career as an industrial officer at the ACTU between 1988 and 2000. He is the author of Long View From the Left.

Wind farm near Albany, Western Australia / CC BY-SA 2.5 The government’s climate-action agenda has its predictable detractors, but the current decentralised approach is risking a fall in wider public ...

Lena Dunham’s new rom-com series mines her life with her British musician husband, but the fun and froth gives way to an ...

Kevin Macdonald’s documentary inadvertently downplays Houston’s impact on pop music history There’s a piece of handycam footage in Kevin Macdonald’s new documentary, Whitney, that gives the film, ...

‘Mira Gojak / Elizabeth Newman’ illustrates the possibilities for curated shows in commercial galleries The curated exhibition is often seen as the domain of the non-commercial gallery or large-scale ...

Mile 22 marks the fourth collaboration between Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg, an actor turned Michael Mann-protégé whose previous films as a director have demonstrated his admiration for the American ...

A walk with ecologist Alison Pouliot exploring the ways fungi up-end our understanding of the natural world I’m walking in the Wombat State Forest in central Victoria with Alison Pouliot, an ecologist ...

The RBA is discovering that providing people with more knowledge about its decisions can be hazardous Finance, like politics, runs on information. There’s the kind that’s provided officially, and then ...

The Greeks sure understand the wrath of whimsical gods. According to ancient myth, the goddess Artemis was so affronted by King Agamemnon accidentally bumping off one of her pet deer that she ordered ...

As interest in Oasis resurges, talking to the combative brothers recalls their glory years as ‘dirty chancers, stealing riffs instead of Ford Fiestas’ Have you ever seen Liam Gallagher in an interview ...

What might be needed to convince Türkiye to clear the way for an Australia–Pacific partnership to host the COP31 climate summit?