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 ...

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 ...

National affairs Commemorating the peace or remembering the war? Antonia Finnane 5 September 2025 Memorials to the violence against “comfort women” risk being hijacked by competitive victimhood ...

Australian schooling lives within the comprehensive failure of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s “education revolution.” David Gonski’s proposals, by some margin the best of a bad lot, had only limited ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Over the past six months, from Hobart to Broome and Adelaide to Thursday Island, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have reclaimed the movement towards constitutional recognition at twelve ...

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 ...

There’s no mystery about the strong sales of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu and its sequel for younger readers, Young Dark Emu: A Truer History. They have helped articulate a desire among non-Indigenous ...

Clive Palmer’s battle with Mark McGowan and his Labor colleagues in Western Australia might seem like an unprecedented use of sheer willpower to bend a government to a miner’s will. But the ...