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 ...

Other Voices TikTok and the future of politics Sam Freedman 26 September 2025 The Chinese-owned video platform has become the largest source of news for Australians under twenty-five. Now Donald Trump ...

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 ...

It is salutary to turn on the television on the morning after the biggest landslide to the Labor Party since 1943 and the Liberal Party’s worst-ever election defeat. We must have had Sky on by the ...

In November 2017 a group of protesters in São Paulo burnt an effigy of acclaimed gender theorist Judith Butler outside an academic conference she was attending, while waving crucifixes and national ...

After months of public brinkmanship, with interest groups and commentators barracking from the sidelines and the threat of a double dissolution election hanging overhead, the federal government has ...

Australian schooling lives within the comprehensive failure of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s “education revolution.” David Gonski’s proposals, by some margin the best of a bad lot, had only limited ...

The Gonski review is history. The Gonski panel submitted its report in December 2011, and the government responded in February 2012. There have been two federal elections since then. It is timely to ...