Rachel Perkins is a director, writer and founder of Blackfella Films. She leads a foundation that is recording languages and songlines through the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Ramona Koval is a writer, broadcaster and former presenter of The Book Show on ABC Radio National. Her books include By the Book: A Reader’s Guide to Life, Samovar and Speaking Volumes.

How can the major parties address the rise of populism in Australia?

0 ENTRIES Luke Beesley is a poet and singer-songwriter. His latest book is In the Photograph.

0 ENTRIES Jessica Stanley is a London-based Australian author of two novels: A Great Hope and Consider Yourself Kissed. LATEST ...

National correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe, on why both major parties have policies that will see house prices rise – and what it means for the housing crisis. When Peter Dutton’s son ...

Chief scientist at Rewiring Australia, Saul Griffith, on the electrification already underway – and what both sides of politics are promising for our energy future. In a coastal corner of Australia, ...

Harini Rathnakumar on how her promise of a better life in Australia was shattered, and the many others stuck in visa limbo. As a child refugee in India, Harini dreamt of making it to Australia to ...

Andrew Fuhrmann is an editor and literary critic. He is a researcher in the Digital Studio at the University of Melbourne and has taught at the Victorian College of the Arts.

From his days in a boys’ home to co-founding Australia’s first Indigenous theatre group, Jack Charles has been up and ...

Patrick McCaughey is a former director of the National Gallery of Victoria and has published widely on Australian art.

Kim Mahood is the author of Craft for a Dry Lake, Position Doubtful and the essay ‘Kartiya Are Like Toyotas: White Workers on Australia’s Cultural Frontier’.