In his new collection of eight wide-ranging essays, the distinguished photographer Michael Collins makes a plea for the art of close observation. The viewer’s role is...
Even as Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs’s book 90 Seconds to Midnight goes on sale in bookshops, its title has been overtaken by events. “90 seconds” was the...
During August 1945, in the last days of the second world war, US bombers flew from the Micronesian island of Tinian to drop atomic weapons on...
Donald Trump is suing Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal for US$10 billion, more than ten times the biggest defamation settlement in American history. In the earlier...
The idea that masculinity is in crisis is not new, but it has taken on a new urgency. Maleness itself, not just actual men, is increasingly...
As the world remembers the end of the Pacific war, many stories will be told of momentous events and remarkable lives. But perhaps only one, left...
Tasmania presents something of a political conundrum. In May 2023 its Liberal government fell into minority with the defection of two members, John Tucker and Lara...
“South Australia has one of the finest governments of the eighteenth century.” So said the singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer responding to the state government’s banning of five...
The world’s highest court has just given the Australian government a giant climate headache. For all the rhetorical, political and practical support Australia offers the small...
Australia’s new communications minister Anika Wells had some big files in the in-tray she inherited in May. Among the most pressing was the future of free-to-air...