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

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

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 ...

When David Halliday from Eureka Street asked me to pen an introduction to my father Bruce Dawe’s unpublished poems, I wasn’t quite sure at first. Even with the purest of intentions, bias tends to ...

On Friday, in what should have been a routine diplomatic meeting in the Oval Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was subjected to something that looked much closer to an ambush than a ...

It rose in its tall verticals from the grace and welcome of the earth, / That swooned far, far below, / As canny masons hefted the limestone / Into vast beatitudes of grace; / Shipwrights inverted ...

Modern medicine’s astonishing ability to preserve life has nudged the possibility of death and the process of dying ever further from our consciousness. The past year or so has been a confronting one ...

Nur Warsame is Australia's first openly gay imam, one of just a few worldwide. He has made news in recent weeks, telling his story and advocating for LGBTI Muslims. He hopes to open a gay-friendly ...

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 ...

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 ...