For over 80 years Meanjin has been a quiet but powerful enabler of Australian literature. It required a mere pittance to keep it alive. But in an age where imagination, the life of the mind, and the ...

This Eureka Street Plus article, typically exclusive to subscribers, has been developed in partnership with Catholic Social Services Australia. We're pleased to share it with all Eureka Street readers ...

Since the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013–2017), Australia has become more attuned to the complexities of power, consent, and exploitation within trusted ...

The final document of the Synod on Synodality has served as a signpost to a quiet revolution in many areas. Not least of these has been the Church’s attitude to disability. As I have discussed in ...

I first met Frank Brennan almost 20 years ago, when I was in Australia as a part of an international Jesuit formation program. I had no idea who he was, the work he’d done over many decades with First ...

February 24 will remain in peoples’ minds and for many years to come being the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But for some of us, February 24 holds another, more sustaining and ...

It rose in its tall verticals from the grace and welcome of the earth, / That swooned far, far below, / As canny masons hefted the limestone / Into vast beatitudes of grace; / Shipwrights inverted ...

When David Halliday from Eureka Street asked me to pen an introduction to my father Bruce Dawe’s unpublished poems, I wasn’t quite sure at first. Even with the purest of intentions, bias tends to ...

On Friday, in what should have been a routine diplomatic meeting in the Oval Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was subjected to something that looked much closer to an ambush than a ...

These weeks are a time of elections — the Canadian and Australian this week, and the Papal election some time in May. The elections differ in their procedures but share a reliance on the ballot and an ...

The Argentinian Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a serious contender for the papacy at the conclave which elected Joseph Ratzinger in 2005. The cardinals who voted for Ratzinger saw him as a faithful ...

The children have been busy. On matters of environmental justice, Australia has witnessed much legal activity from youthful citizens who, despite in some cases not being old enough to vote, have ...