JM Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His books include Disgrace and The Schooldays of Jesus.

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 ...

Penny Wong has represented South Australia in the Senate since 2002, and is the current Leader of the Opposition in the Senate.

Mark McKenna is a professor of history at the University of Sydney. Stuart Ward is professor of history at the University of Copenhagen.

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

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

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.

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’.

For Paddy Bedford, the day usually began soon after dawn. Tony Oliver, a former Melbourne gallerist who had worked alongside Bedford for close to a decade since arriving in the East Kimberley in 1998, ...

After the death of her mother, the author reflects on the hold of sugar upon her family’s health and history ...

The danger of misrepresenting new malpractice regulations as muzzling doctors’ opinions On Saturday October 8, The Australian published an op-ed titled: “Health disgrace: bureaucrats in bid to silence ...

Melbourne-based Elizabeth Finkel is a former biochemist who switched to telling the stories of other scientists. She is the former editor of Cosmos magazine.