This is an edited and updated version of this year’s History Council of New South Wales Annual History Lecture, delivered by Frank Bongiorno at the Chau...
How did pollsters perform at this year’s American presidential election? Unlike in the first two contests involving Donald Trump, they didn’t disgrace themselves. They understated his...
In 2021 the left-of-centre commentariat, both within the Biden administration and among the general left-of-center, was fiercely debating how much to worry about inflation. For example,...
Robodebt is the emblem of all that went wrong with the Coalition governments of 2013–22. If the kindest thing that could be said about the scheme...
After six months of conflict, the French parliament has voted to delay New Caledonia’s scheduled provincial and national elections until late 2025. The New Caledonian government,...
They called it the “Mini Tet” offensive. In late April 1968 the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army launched a second wave of audacious attacks on...
On the first Sunday of each month the artists of Bundeena, south of Sydney, open their studios up to the public. There are dozens of them,...
Should anyone care whether Charmian Clift and Leonard Cohen had an affair on a Greek island more than sixty years ago? Why, in 2024, might we...
The famous Turing Test, developed to assess whether a computer program possesses intelligence, is indicative of the flawed thinking at the heart of Artificial Intelligence. It...
Eighty years ago, 350 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle and far from home, the greatest battleship ever built — and the pride of Adolf Hitler’s...