In cricket-mad Australia, when did watching the Test become a civic duty? From the MCG to writers’ festivals, shared ...

Writers’ festivals present themselves as arenas of ideas, yet the range of disagreement on offer can be surprisingly narrow.

Across Iran, a rare nationwide uprising driven by economic collapse and political exhaustion has been met with mass killings, ...

After the Bondi massacre, Parliament briefly found moral clarity, then lost it in haste and distrust. Rushed antisemitism laws exposed constitutional risk and procedural decay. Can a Royal Commission ...

Australia Day is meant to unite the nation, yet increasingly exposes its fractures and injustices. After the Bondi murders, we must consider what binds Australians together, and what must change if ...

The Argentinian Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a serious contender for the papacy at the conclave which elected Joseph Ratzinger in 2005. The cardinals who voted for Ratzinger saw him as a faithful ...

I first met Frank Brennan almost 20 years ago, when I was in Australia as a part of an international Jesuit formation program. I had no idea who he was, the work he’d done over many decades with First ...

This Eureka Street Plus article, typically exclusive to subscribers, has been developed in partnership with Catholic Social Services Australia. We're pleased to share it with all Eureka Street readers ...

Like clockwork, news organisations run stories a few times a year about falling teaching standards in schools. Then there are the debates among academics, teachers and parents about the best methods – ...

As another anniversary of my husband’s death approaches, I’ve been wondering if I want AI to ‘resurrect’ him. An AI clone of him could move, answer my questions and remind me of his voice. It wouldn’t ...

Robert Manne, A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars, Latrobe University Press with Black Inc In my youth I was puzzled why so many older people devoured ...

Almost a quarter of a century ago, friends of mine whom I love and respect lost a child to an incurable disease. Grief and deep pain followed as they struggled to make sense of their personal tragedy.