Last week, kicking off a 15 per cent reduction in the US state department’s workforce, more than 1300 officials received termination notices. Those considered surplus included...
There’s a story about Hubert Parry, King Charles’s favourite composer, hearing Arnold Schoenberg’s atonal Five Orchestral Pieces Op. 16. It was in 1914, two years before...
To really understand a regime, it seems, you need to see inside its political prisons. And in recent years, a succession of intelligent Australians has unwillingly...
If the biggest surprise of May’s federal election was its lopsided result, a secondary one was the extent to which the Coalition had guzzled down the...
On 9 May 1927, almost three decades after federation, Australia’s Commonwealth parliament finally moved from Melbourne to Canberra. Around 30,000 spectators travelled from all over the...
The post-American world arrived with a bang when Donald Trump declared a pox on Pax Americana. The gradual erosion of American leadership went into hyperdrive because...
China’s fastest-growing industries are being told to curb their aggressive price competition. Beijing has evidently decided to confront the excesses of its past investment policy, but...
South Africa has only one traditional-looking cathedral. It’s not in any of the major cities, but in Makhanda (Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape. Therein lies a...
The obituaries for former Treasury secretary and National Party senator John Stone — who died last week at the age of ninety-six — have so far...
Few who sat down to hear Ken Henry speak about environment law this week would have been surprised by his blunt analysis. But they may not...