Sovereign is based on the true story of a deadly encounter between Jerry and Joseph Kane, a father and son, and West Memphis police officers in Arkansas. Swegal’s film concludes more or less where the ...

Given the torrential rainstorms that battered the Brazilian city of Belém as COP30 concluded a couple of weeks ago, it wouldn’t be strictly accurate to say that the dust has settled on the latest UN ...

The vengeful, divisive streak in contemporary American politics has prompted a stream of books scrutinising the social disruption and thwarted expectations associated with the rise of Donald Trump.

National affairs High finance Michael Gill 22 August 2025 A burgeoning finance sector has increased the economy’s vulnerability in an era of heightened global risks ...

Books & arts Ship me somewhere east of Suez… Robin Jeffrey 16 October 2025 An impulse to recover stories from before India’s 1947 Partition yields a sweeping account of the aftermath of empire ...

Other Voices Why aren’t Americans partying like it’s 1999? Paul Krugman 10 October 2025 This feels like another tech-fuelled sharemarket bubble, but there’s one big difference ...

International Can the world be governed without the US? Michael Jacobs 5 July 2025 A UN conference discovers the absence of the United States can be an opportunity rather than a hindrance ...

Moree might be booming thanks to cotton and other crops, but many of the benefits haven’t yet reached the local Aboriginal people, the Kamilaroi, who comprise at least a fifth of its 9000 people.

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 ...

Australia’s renewable energy revolution offers the biggest opportunity since the gold rushes and the wool and mining booms to revitalise regional Australia. Not that you’d know it from the claims made ...

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 ...

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 ...