David Littleproud insists the continuing surge in One Nation’s surveyed support played “zero” part in his party’s decision to leave the federal Coalition (again), but the Nationals leader would say ...

In the first year of his second non-consecutive term as president, Donald J. Trump sought to redefine the American presidency and reorient America’s place in the world. He used federal power to ...

When Australia’s foreign minister Penny Wong issued a statement on Iran earlier this month, she didn’t mince her words: “We strongly condemn the killing of protestors, the use of violence, arbitrary ...

Books & arts (Not) talking politics Caitlin Mahar 18 December 2025 Social theorist Sarah Stein Lubrano says the “marketplace of ideas” doesn’t work. But is the alternative any more promising?

National affairs Freedom from information Peter Mares 5 September 2025 The government’s FOI plan runs counter to its promised opening up of non-sensitive data ...

Other Voices Jeffrey Epstein is a policy issue David Dayen 14 November 2025 It’s about elite impunity, the defining issue in America for more than two decades ...

National affairs Fifty years later, an alliance with PNG Graeme Dobell 3 October 2025 With an eye on Indonesia and then on China, Australia finally strikes a defence deal with our nearest neightbour ...

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 ...

“I cannot live with You —” goes Emily Dickinson’s poem. “It would be Life —/ And Life is over there —/ Behind the Shelf.” Once upon a time many Australian homes had the books of Patrick White out ...

THE story of the devastation of the NSW Labor Party in 2011 begins on the night of one of its more miraculous victories. On Saturday 24 March 2007, the premier, Morris Iemma – whose government had ...

As we enter the second decade of the Australian debate about constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, one thing has become clear. The only viable way forward — as ...