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 ...

Books & arts Dispirited voters Glyn Davis 30 October 2025 Political dejection creates disengaged citizens, says a new synthesis of psychology, sociology and political science ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The politicians and soldiers do the work but the thinkers give the world the language and concepts to understand power: Machiavelli wrestles Marx while Clausewitz argues theory with Sun Tzu and ...

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, ...

It’s a weekday afternoon in late February and I’m taking a nostalgic walk around the leafy streets of the suburb where I grew up. West Pymble, a generally unassuming place, sits on the unfashionable ...