Boyer Lectures News Today

How do you stage Shakespeare in the Age of Woke? Well, If you're Bell Shakespeare doing The Comedy of Errors, you emphasise gender and colour-blind casting and forfeit the play's easy laughs in favour of soft-focused confusion. We won’t find Shakespeare’s relevance by softening his edges, as did the Bell production, by implementing a sex-change and making Luciana a camp male

Langton’s latest response to the Labor government’s Voice referendum debacle underlines the pro-capitalist character of the narrow privileged layer she represents.

What is our nation? After the Voice referendum's crudely manipulated emotionalism and cynical use of bad history, racial hatred and lies in an attempt to break us apart, that is a question the young will need to answer before the haters destroy our good country. I was an adult influenced by one bad short book. My individual recovery was painful but simple; their path is much more difficult

The problem on a Voice for news outlets is, well, news. The usual cliches apply – 'dog bites man is not news, man bites dog is'.

The comments flowed from the very nature of the Voice referendum itself, which is mired in the reactionary politics of racialism on all sides.

Qantas is just the latest and most egregious case of Big Business Behaving Badly.

I’m a believer in the capitalist system – the “market economy” as economists prefer to call it. But governments should manage the economy for the benefit of the many, not the few.

The great Australian writer lived most of her life overseas and had an ambivalent relationship with the country of her birth.

'We have a lot of work to do if there is to be any prospect of a successful referendum on the Voice to Parliament, which Indigenous people have put to us as the mode by which they want to be recognised in the Constitution. They have said they want a Voice. Now, we can debate whether it be a Voice to Parliament or a Voice to Parliament and government, or a Voice just about particular laws.' By Frank Brennan

An Indigenous Voice to parliament is among Anthony Albanese’s greatest political ambitions, but the Coalition’s ultimate backing is far from certain. The prime minister may need to call the opposition leader’s bluff.