Books & arts
30 July 2025
A firsthand account of the emergence and deepening of a gender-fixated worldview
Books & arts
28 July 2025
What happened when the satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer, who died on Saturday at ninety-seven, came to puritanical Adelaide in 1960?
National affairs
28 July 2025
National trends and local factors have combined to make forming government an immensely complicated process
National affairs
25 July 2025
The International Court of Justice has opened the door for human rights–based legal action against recalcitrant governments
National affairs
25 July 2025
The British communications regulator’s SOS for broadcast TV is a message for Australians too
National affairs
National affairs
23 July 2025
More evidence emerges that Peter Dutton’s electorally toxic impulses were reinforced by misleading polling
National affairs
22 July 2025
Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are…
National affairs
22 July 2025
The former Treasury head was revealed to be an arch-reactionary in his long second career
National affairs
18 July 2025
A former Treasury secretary lays down the environmental law
National affairs
11 July 2025
The NT coroner spells out the long series of events that led to Kumanjayi Walker’s death
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
21 July 2025
Visiting friends in the South African town, Jim Davidson finds a community once again on a frontier
Essays & reportage
18 July 2025
What really happened when boffins gathered in Canberra in 1939?
Essays & reportage
2 July 2025
Historian John Hirst founded a career on a distinctive view of colonial Australian politics
Essays & reportage
25 June 2025
A former leader’s trajectory is also the story of the Liberal Party’s narrowing base
Essays & reportage
24 June 2025
Australian solutions to renewable energy’s teething problems are attracting international interest
Books & arts
Books & arts
24 July 2025
This year’s BBC Proms celebrate composer, conductor and audience favourite Pierre Boulez
Books & arts
23 July 2025
Australia’s latest book by a former political prisoner paints a vivid picture of survival inside one of China’s state security jails
Books & arts
22 July 2025
The Australian flag faces the American eagle in the new world disorder
Books & arts
18 July 2025
Like the technology it anticipated, the photobooth took the photographer out of the equation
Books & arts
18 July 2025
If democracy is the goal, non-violence is a better bet
International
International
1 August 2025
Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal has brought to a head the media mogul’s uneasy relationship with Donald Trump
International
25 July 2025
The erosion of American foreign policy capacity continues in Washington
International
22 July 2025
Xi Jinping’s refurbished economic policies combine the old and the new
International
16 July 2025
Donald Trump’s signature legislation will come back to bite the Republicans
International
5 July 2025
A UN conference discovers the absence of the United States can be an opportunity rather than a hindrance
Other Voices
Other Voices
18 July 2025
Jillian Segal’s proposals won’t only erode free speech but could also worsen the problem she was asked to tackle
Other Voices
12 June 2025
Behind the sadism lies an attack on democracy
Other Voices
30 May 2025
A broader antiwar movement is stirring
Other Voices
9 May 2025
What does it mean for China to be “the future”? And what does that future look like?
Other Voices
16 April 2025
History shows tariffs are bad for rich economies — and Donald Trump’s decisions so far are actually reducing manufacturing investment