In the aftermath of the Bondi Beach shooting, Australians are struggling to comprehend how the world’s oldest hatred found new expression on their own shores. Two gunmen opened fire on a Hanukkah ...

It’s something we’ve all known for a long time – that old entertainment is always made new again – but we’ve never seen it quite like the way it is these days. Think of the brand new Harry Potter ...

Christmas presents come in different shapes and sizes according to the climate. T-shirts with jingle bells in summer, and puff jackets and skates in winter. In a cultural winter, too, the astringent ...

The War on Science: Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry and the Scientific Process, ed. Lawrence Krauss, Allen & Unwin, 2025. When Everyone ...

Last year, we bought The Most Beautiful Christmas Tree. We drove out to the Adelaide Hills, having heard rumours of a field out the front of a church dotted with plump, perfectly conical trees. We ...

My neighbours like a festival. They put baskets of sweets and black furry pretend cats outside their apartment doors on Halloween. At Christmas, Andree hangs the biggest wreath of evergreens, berries ...

This piece first appeared in Haaretz the day after the Bondi Beach terror attack. This morning, at Jewish schools across Melbourne, the armed guards who have been ...

In parishes across the world, women live out the task of service (diakonia) without being officially recognised in that role. Reform is badly needed. A second Commission for the Study of the Diaconate ...

It’s a story often told this time of year, but bear with me, because it’s still deserving of our attention. On Christmas Eve, 1914, along a stretch of land that had seen men slaughtered by the ...