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National affairs Exit, stage right Peter Brent 11 December 2025 Can One Nation continue to capitalise on the Coalition’s internal divisions? National affairs Too good to be true Stephen Wilks 10 December 2025 A new party for disaffected small-l Liberals? That’s been tried before National affairs Reserve Bank’s balancing act continues Saul Eslake 9 December 2025 The Reserve Bank’s latest interest rate decision suggests it won’t be raising rates next year National affairs Pacific headwinds Hamish McDonald 2 December 2025 A muddled year in the region for Labor ends with the Pacific affairs minister disagreeing with his own government

Books & arts A particular idea of Australianness Richard Johnstone 8 December 2025 PIX magazine introduced photojournalism to a fast-changing mid-century society Books & arts Emotional inheritances Stephen Young 5 December 2025 Sovereign is a nuanced portrayal of sovereign-citizen beliefs Books & arts Can we not live with Patrick White any longer? Nicholas Jose 5 December 2025 “In White, Beckett meets Groucho Marx — and both fuse in an Elizabethan tragedy,” says a passionate new defence of the Nobel Prize–winning writer Books & arts Dark passions and inflammatory speech James Walter 1 December 2025 Is democracy more likely to perish from within than at the hands of external enemies?

Other Voices China’s people are stuck on a treadmill Noah Smith 17 November 2025 They’re working hard for someone else’s benefit Other Voices Jeffrey Epstein is a policy issue David Dayen 14 November 2025 It’s about elite impunity, the defining issue in America for more than two decades Other Voices Which party is in trouble, again? Paul Krugman 7 November 2025 If more evidence of Donald Trump’s electoral toxicity was needed, this week’s votes provided it Other Voices Why do we still have so many radiologists? Noah Smith 17 October 2025 AI model-makers predicted a sharp dropoff in jobs. So far, reality is refusing to oblige