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Perhaps the most profane opening paragraph in the history of Australian journalism can be found in one of Black Inc.’s avowedly highbrow Quarterly Essays. “Those Chinese fuckers are trying to rat-fuck us,” Kevin Rudd is quoted as saying, in David Marr’s June 2010 edition of the essay series. Profane, yes,…

In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race

David Marr speaks on confronting the true history of Australia.

Indigenous leader says failure means ‘middle path’ to reconciliation will be gone, and falling wholesale prices expected to deliver cheaper electricity

Cultural capital is a rare and precious commodity. It is earned by doing – with wit, rigour and imagination. Being born to privilege may help in its accumulation, but that is not sufficient. These days, especially, privilege can be an impediment.

Did you know that 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Patrick White winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Australian writer to be so honoured?

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

Frank Moorhouse had been having sex with men since the age of 17 but did not openly identify as gay or bisexual.

World no. 21 Nick Kyrgios has been forced to bow out citing a knee injury and says he is ‘devastated’