For almost a decade, The Saturday Paper has published Australia’s leading writers and thinkers. We have pursued stories that are ignored elsewhere, covering them with sensitivity and depth. We have ...

It isn’t difficult to understand why first love is one of the great literary subjects. Its intensity is extraordinary, a self-dissolving, rapturous mess of desire, longing and aching loss that sweeps ...

The Trap returns readers of Fiona Kelly McGregor’s 2022 novel Iris to familiar territory: the criminal underworld of early 20th century Sydney. While Iris was set during the Depression era, the year ...

As multinational gas companies reap huge profits from the Iran war, parliamentarians are pressing the treasurer to overhaul LNG taxes in the May budget.

As Angus Taylor prepares for his budget reply, colleagues worry he is falling into management consultancy traps and that the relationship with his shadow treasurer has broken down.

Speaking exclusively to The Saturday Paper, Matt Canavan details his conviction in taking on Pauline Hanson and One Nation but admits he is not familiar with their policies.

Australia’s most destructive invasive species is staging a dramatic comeback as funding for biological control research and development stalls.

Jon Campbell’s artworks, showing in the survey exhibition yEAH / dUNNO at Geelong Gallery, record a demotic Australia that is ...

Following the biggest manhunt in Victoria’s history, police are now seeking Dezi Freeman’s possible allies, as sovereign ...

Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...

The Colombian island of San Andrés is a haven of beach bar shacks, reggae beats and white sand lapped by seven colours of the Caribbean Sea.

Donald Trump threatened this week to “obliterate” Iran’s energy sector if it did not agree to a deal by Monday, but signalled ...