Whatever the short-term advantages of dumping net zero, the Libs have also created electoral challenges for themselves ...

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929 is a well-told story about the great Wall Street crash. It has vivid characters, a thrilling plot and sensible observations. It is not too long, not too technical and not too ...

Books & arts Now, down to business Patrick Mullins 2 October 2025 “A catalyst, a provocation, and a reassurance”: Asa Briggs combined prolific history-writing with an extraordinary range of other ...

Dykes to Watch Out For, a widely syndicated strip cartoon series, ran from 1983 to 2008, ending only after Bechdel achieved success with her first graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragic Comedy, ...

The proceedings of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization don’t normally make headline news. (Except perhaps in Ocean Freight Times.) But the ...

Back in 2015 Kevin Rudd was appointed inaugural president of the Asia Society Policy Institute — a self-described “think–do tank” modestly dedicated to “using second-track diplomacy to assist ...

The major social and cultural changes Australia experienced in the second half of the twentieth century were assisted by two key phenomena: television and immigration. Neither evolved separately ...

Indo-Pacific leaders have gathered in Malaysia and South Korea this week to gauge how the power game is going. The ceremony couldn’t conceal the apprehension, even fear. Power-balance calculations are ...

In the first Asian tour of his second presidency, Donald Trump attracted higher than ever levels of praise, sycophancy and financial pledges from the region’s leaders. But a social media post might ...

Having lived in the United States for my nineteen earliest years and then spent sixty-seven years in Australia (minus a five-and-half-year interlude in Canada) I’ve been fortunate to live in places ...

The website pepysdiary.com has been posting daily entries from Samuel Pepys’s 1660s diary since 2003, each entry inviting comments from readers. Since the diary itself ran for nine years, we are in ...