A kind of elegy Susan Lever 27 June 2025 An award-winning memoir honours cultures old and new Not alone in the dark tunnel Tanya Dalziell 27 June 2025 Gail Jones’s latest novel echoes the ...

These projections are easily accessible, and anyone with a spreadsheet and a bit of time can reproduce them. Yet in the stream of pro-natalist articles in both traditional and new media the evidence ...

Sussan Ley’s choice of Kerrynne Liddle as shadow Indigenous Australians minister symbolises her resolve to renew and moderate the parliamentary Liberal Party. Liddle evinces sobriety and worldly ...

Major U-turns are never a good look for a government’s reputation for competence. But this is Starmer’s third in as many months. He had already reversed Reeves’s highly unpopular abolition of the ...

A leaked transcript of a Liberal Women’s Council meeting highlights the challenges facing Sussan Ley over women’s representation ...

Gail Jones’s eleventh novel, The Name of the Sister, opens with a freelance journalist, Angie, watching a catalogue of miseries on the evening news. Her attention is caught by two successive items ...

The American bestseller Abundance is making waves in Australia, but its key argument has less force on this side of the Pacific ...

In their bestselling book Abundance American journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that rich countries can be much richer. Their citizens can be healthier, their environment more salubrious, ...

So it was on Sunday when news broke that US planes had bombed three nuclear sites in Iran. No Australian cabinet minister fronted up with a comment (a blessing of Sunday). The press gallery doyen, ...

Australia’s government and opposition stand in different places on the United States’ attack on Iran. The Albanese government’s first response was to call for “ de-escalation, dialogue and diplomacy.” ...

International Out of the woodchipper Michael Jacobs 13 March 2025 At least one of its rivals will be rubbing its hands at Washington’s retreat from foreign aid and international institutions Essays & ...

Addressing the National Press Club on Wednesday, treasurer Jim Chalmers acknowledged the presence of a slew of ministerial colleagues, a couple of key appointees — productivity commissioner Danielle ...