Senator Jane Hume, who after a dreadful election campaign was dropped by Ley from the frontbench, is now deputy, the first senator of either major party to occupy that position since Western Australia ...

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

National affairs Gallup’s errant offspring Murray Goot 16 September 2025 How did pollsters come up with such different figures on Palestinian recognition?

Essays & reportage Yet more truth-telling? Dean Ashenden 11 April 2025 A Yes voter’s journey into her family’s past raises the question: what about those who voted No? National affairs Jason Clare’s ...

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, ...

In the summer of 1910 a young female photographer arrived in Sydney and took a room alongside the offices of that well-known weekly magazine, the Bulletin. May Moore was in Australia to see if she ...

For almost a decade the Coalition government insisted the states and territories had sole responsibility for ensuring that Australians on the lowest incomes had a place to call home. Even at 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 ...

The critics were right. Ten years after the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement, or AUSFTA, came into force, new analysis of the data shows that the agreement diverted Australia’s trade away ...

You could get the impression that Australia’s most liveable city is on its way to becoming an urban hellscape. “Jacinta Allan’s Undemocratic Plan to Destroy Melbourne’s Liveability and Quality of Life ...

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 ...

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.