Virginia Trioli

The saddest aspect of all this that a generation of boys may feel compelled to suppress the ordinary the joy of celebrating another's success.

Michael Wilkinson won an Emmy for his intricate costumes in the celebrated Star Wars series Andor. Now, he is recreating 1880s America for Death By Lightning.

We have navigated this new path of "what to watch/what to censor/what to allow" with stumbling footsteps. I'd love to tell you we have been perfectly consistent. We have not.

Do I walk away from private insurance and trust that health challenges will have me seen promptly enough in the public system?

This is not the first revelation about how we treat the most vulnerable in our society but such reports persistently reveal a deeper, and more distressing malaise about Australian society.

I bet you've never spent as much time in your entire life ruminating over a brooch as you have this week.

This game revealed how rarely we are vulnerable in front of our children, and in front of each other. 

Men sit at the top of the world's fashion houses while women designers get torn apart online.

These clubs, which still exist right around the country, are the weirdest anomaly. They sit jostled up against the Australia they firmly shut their doors against; their purpose in modern Australia seems almost neurotic.

The AI dystopia might already be here but there are some things only humans can teach our children.

It's impossible to overstate the importance of the Armani suit for a woman, both the real thing and every label that followed in his path.

If you have kids who game you won't want to know, but will need to hear, that "paedophile hunting" is a booming genre of social media content.

Sharing feelings and downloading troubles with others occurs naturally when these close connections are maintained.

I write this to remember David and his incomparable contribution to Australian and world cinema, but also to implore myself and anyone else reading this: don't wait.

Are we really comfortable with trading away one of the few financial benefits Australian creatives have left?

When our parliaments, newsrooms, judicial benches and many other institutions all look a certain way, it is clear who is at the centre of Australia's monoculture.

You have to assume that the writers cherish these characters as much as their legions of fans do — and yet they twist them into strange and ludicrous shapes.

Tourists are stunned to discover they were warmer back in a country that's blanketed by snow for months of the year.

The simple purity of God Only Knows, and the glorious harmonies of its recorded version have become a touchstone of modern music, and a shared password of musical passion.

If you have had the unfortunate need to turn up to an emergency department, I hope that it is not because in Australia in 2025, you can't afford to go anywhere else.

Professor Marcia Langton says she's "overwhelmed" by the result of a decade's work spent curating a monumental celebration of Aboriginal art and design.

I suspect the world is divided into two groups: those who worship Star Wars and can spend hours arguing over the complexities of far-flung corners of its universe; and those who swipe left and close the app immediately when they see someone has mentioned George Lucas's creation as one of their great loves.

You know someone's all out of runway for their cause when they start throwing around words like "decency".

If the newly re-elected Albanese government is serious about Australian culture and production, then Donald Trump could be inadvertently showing the way to ensuring it.

Richard Tognetti is exacting, virtuosic and at the helm of one of the world's best chamber orchestras. He sits down with Virginia Trioli to talk work ethic, what brings him joy and what irks him.