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 ...

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

Australia Day is meant to unite the nation, yet increasingly exposes its fractures and injustices. After the Bondi murders, ...

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, ...

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 ...

February 24 will remain in peoples’ minds and for many years to come being the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But for some of us, February 24 holds another, more sustaining and ...

The final document of the Synod on Synodality has served as a signpost to a quiet revolution in many areas. Not least of these has been the Church’s attitude to disability. As I have discussed in ...

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 ...

The firebombing of the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne rightly drew condemnation and shock from Australians of every level. Although the circumstances and the mindset of those who destroyed the ...

When David Halliday from Eureka Street asked me to pen an introduction to my father Bruce Dawe’s unpublished poems, I wasn’t quite sure at first.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 ...

When I was younger and perhaps more arrogant, I could speak confidently of modern poetry and its defects. My listeners rightly pointed out that I hadn’t read many ‘modern poets’ and was in no position ...