Five genre-bending drama series made keenly anticipated returns to television this year, all of them meeting expectations convincingly enough to ensure a further season. Clearing the...
In early October, Britain’s justice secretary and deputy prime minister David Lammy was booed and jeered when he attended a vigil for victims of an attack...
Allies, friends and clients of the United States grasp at a three-tier strategy to deal with a rogue American president running an incoherent government. The first...
Sean Kelly’s Quarterly Essay The Good Fight: What Does Labor Stand For? is a passionate cri de couer from a Labor true believer. Kelly fears the...
Last summer, a few American writer friends and I travelled across China on a self-organised tour of AI labs, factories and industrial clusters. Among them was...
In the twelve months since he was elected for a second term, Donald Trump has driven an agenda more damaging to American democracy, rights, freedoms and...
Since 2006, the Economist Intelligence Unit has measured the quality of democracy in 167 countries and territories across the world. Its last index, for 2024, was...
First published in July 2014 In the wake of the Port Arthur massacre in April 1996, newly elected prime minister John Howard worked with state and...
Around 40,000 years Before Present, during the last ice age of the Pleistocene, explorers walked from Wilson’s Promontory, the Australian mainland’s southern-most projection, to northeast Tasmania,...
It is a rare book that earns universal praise. Rarer still when that same book asks us to rethink Australian history. Yet from Jackie Huggins to...