When Papua New Guinea became independent on 16 September 1975, Australia departed with high hopes and quiet fears. After a colonial/protectorate/trusteeship role of nearly seventy years,...
One Nation is surging in the opinion polls. By the party’s recent standards that is, and by recent Australian standards to be exact. Back in 1998,...
“The whole issue is so complex. And there’s so many layers to it, because we’ve got serving police officers accepting money from a newspaper, people at...
When I began my working life at the late and lamented Department of Trade and Resources I was still fresh from poring over The Crisis in...
The novelist Ian McEwan once remarked that the sum of a writer’s career might only be the one or two feet of space their books occupy...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another seems to take place in a continuous present, even though there is a sixteen-year gap between the opening scenes...
I suspect many readers knew little, if anything, about Charlie Kirk before his murder on the 10 September. But if you have teenage kids they probably...
If you were diagnosed with cancer in Australia in the early 1990s, the chances you would survive for another five years were little better than 50–50...
Dominique Moïsi is an eminent French international relations expert, a scholar trained in Paris now teaching at Kings College in London and Harvard. In The Triumph...
When Russian drones entered Poland on the night of 9–10 September, I was across the border in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. As has happened so often...