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

It takes something for a prime minister with a majority of 156 to contrive a parliamentary defeat. But that was Sir Keir Starmer’s singular achievement this week. Or it would have been, had he not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Share I vividly remember the day in May 2018 when the acting dean of the Australian National University’s College of Arts and Social Sciences contacted me in my capacity as a visiting Russia ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

Wealthy families cycle from rags to riches and back again within three generations — or so goes the old saying. But that hasn’t been the case for that uniquely Australian dynasty, the Packers, whose ...

In November last year a young German woman created headlines when she took to the stage during a rally against pandemic restrictions in Hannover. “Hello, I’m Jana from Kassel,” she began. “And I feel ...

Incapable of drinking any more coffee, I return to my car aiming to visit some of the sites of the new great game. As I do I’m reminded that Port Moresby is pocked with the imprints of efforts past ...