The first woman elected to NSW parliament used any means possible — from petitions to theatrical melodrama — to advance her ...

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 ...

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 specialist at ...

The heroine of Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (in cinemas), the first feature from French writer-director Laura Piani, is also holding herself apart from the dating game, but for very different reasons..

Essays & reportage A Silicon Valley for energy? Ben Potter 24 June 2025 Australian solutions to renewable energy’s teething problems are attracting international interest Books & arts Are we getting ...

“Scarborough Fair” is what Ellen Stekert calls a “go around song,” one that is passed from singer to singer, down centuries, across oceans, shape-shifting all the while. “Go around songs” shed and ...

Nations are built with pens and brushes not just hammers and nails. They exhibit their character in what they say about themselves as much as what is said about them. — Bruce Pascoe, Convincing Ground ...

It’s almost a decade since the Henry Review of the tax system recommended an increase in Newstart payments, with new rules designed to help them keep pace with pensions. Treasury secretary Ken Henry ...

When another Newspoll dropped this week (51–49 in the Coalition’s favour, again) the Australian mentioned a change in how its pollsters will be estimating two-party-preferred figures between now and ...

Whyte and other scholars are wary of the “supplemental value” approach for many reasons, two of which are particularly worth highlighting. First, it is plainly colonial to make whitefellas’ knowledge ...