It’s footy season in Melbourne, and Helen Garner is following her grandson’s under-16s team. She not only goes to every game (give or take), but to every training session too, shivering on the sidelines at dusk, fascinated by the spectacle.She’s a passionate Western Bulldogs fan (with an imperfect

When it comes to improving the fairness of the tax system, this is no time to be squeamish.

A simple step we can all take to help stem the rise of fascism. Unfortunately it's not what most of our leaders are doing.

Light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, after severe winter storms washed away sand dunes

Six takeaways from the March for Australia and why it should be a wake-up call.

Michael and Mary Shelley were glamorous Sydney socialites, who became Christian fanatics and kidnappers. Three of their children - Steven, John and Hannah - were secretly placed into foster care with my parents, Lenore and Tom Blaine. The Shelleys were apocalyptically irritated to discover that the children of God had been fostered by working-class Queensland…