The Kazakh president thought he’d been palmed off with second-rate visitors, but the vice-regal Australians eventually got under his guard ...

“You who are seated here today will be China’s elites tomorrow,” declared the middle-aged party secretary at my senior high school. Alongside hundreds of other first-year students at one of the top ...

National affairs Are we there yet? Dean Ashenden 28 March 2025 At last, the Gonski money — which raises a new set of questions Books & arts Dizzying paralysis Dean Ashenden 17 October 2024 Two ...

Books & arts Mother load Philippa Hawker 21 November 2025 Rose Byrne gives a devastating, compulsively watchable performance as a woman on the edge ...

Essays & reportage Nuclear Australia: an on-again, off-again history Jessica Urwin 11 April 2025 Is Peter Dutton’s energy plan going the way of a succession of nuclear pushes?

Books & arts Boulez at 100, the Proms at 130 Andrew Ford 24 July 2025 This year’s BBC Proms celebrate composer, conductor and audience favourite Pierre Boulez Books & arts “That’s all I can do” Andrew ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Across the southeast of the continent now known as Australia, the recent bushfire season provoked a surge in interest in Aboriginal peoples’ fire practices and knowledge. These practices are often ...