Michelle de Kretser has won the fiction prize in the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.

This is reinforced by the Booker Prize website, which highlights the previous winner (Kiran Desai) and two previously shortlisted authors (Andrew Miller and David Szalay) on the list, while noting that all six authors have long-established literary careers.

Most of these scams were enabled by technology, with scammers contacting their victims either online or on the phone.

Writers bend and fracture time in their stories, creating structures that feel closer to the workings of memory than to the ticking of a clock.

The decision to return the Cham artefacts to Cambodia, and to exclude Vietnam and Laos, highlights how contemporary politics shape our understanding of cultural heritage.

The prospect of owning a home in the foreseeable future is out of reach for many young people.

Eight decades after its founding in the wake of the second world war, it is not a good time for the UN.

More than 400 people were pressured or misled into buying phones or contracts they didn’t want, couldn’t afford – or in some cases couldn’t even use.

Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration today re-affirmed existing medical guidelines that it’s safe for pregnant women to take paracetamol at any stage of pregnancy.

Despite all the existential talk about the Liberal Party, there remain significant institutional ballasts and supports.