Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has long been a favourite. Tony Abbott, who one senses has been dreaming of a comeback for the past ...

Sometimes the only things scarier than China’s problems are Beijing’s solutions, says seasoned observer Dan Wang ...

Sometime in 2017 a group of friends in Oxford, all with backgrounds in South Asia, were reflecting on their families’ memories of “the partition” and the exit of the British from their Indian empire ...

Labour was the first and greatest of modern social movements, revolutionary in its effects even when it pursued mere reformism, a melodrama of heroes and villains like any grand theatre, and so ...

Books & arts An exceptional life in the law Dean Ashenden 21 August 2025 Lawyer, educator, judge and royal commissioner Hal Wootten never lost sight of “those on whom the law bore harshly” ...

Other Voices The new Hamas insurgency Leila Seurat 29 August 2025 The gap between the Israeli government’s portrayal of the war and reality on the ground is growing ...

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 ...

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 ...

On his way to Canberra airport recently, Rohan Greenland asked his cab driver to pull over. For anyone who knows Greenland — a public health advocate who likes to “walk the talk” — it will come as no ...

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, the world’s attention has focused on what quickly became a grinding war of attrition, with its endless drone and missile ...

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 ...