There is perhaps no better place to get close to the Peasants’ War and its reverberations than Bad Frankenhausen, a spa town of 10,000 people on...
Outlining his government’s “positive and ambitious agenda” at the National Press Club last week, Anthony Albanese reiterated a series of health policy commitments made during the...
Though the Liberal Party’s “women problem” might seem perennial, the conservative side of Australian politics could once boast of being at the vanguard of female parliamentary...
At the annual Shangri La security dialogue in Singapore two weeks ago, US defense secretary Pete Hegseth didn’t just ask Australia to spend more on defence....
Judith Hermann has been writing critically acclaimed short stories and novels for almost three decades. Having burst onto the literary scene with the 1998 collection The...
“Scarborough Fair” is what Ellen Stekert calls a “go around song,” one that is passed from singer to singer, down centuries, across oceans, shape-shifting all the...
Right now, according to British political theorist Jonathan White, the future seems very close. Our time horizon is closing in. Crises press in on us, shadowing...
In a sweeping introduction to his 1958 book Australian Democracy the Melbourne political scientist A.F. Davies notoriously claimed that “the characteristic talent of Australians is not...
Does anyone remember “American carnage”? In his 2017 inaugural address Donald Trump portrayed a collapsing society, emphasising in particular the “crime and gangs and drugs” destroying...
A few ordinary games as a defender with the Tasmanian Football League’s Glenorchy club ended any prospect I had of a footballing career. In those days,...