With a few exceptions (including Andrew Leigh, Nicki Hutley and Angela Jackson) mainstream Australian economists — including me — haven’t thought, spoken or written as much...
When prime minister Anthony Albanese announced his second-term ministry, the focus was on who got what and who missed out. Beyond the factional musical chairs, though,...
As the Nats formally walked back into the coalition on Wednesday, leader David Littleproud took a swipe at the “gossip and backgrounding” of the past week....
Wes Anderson is a filmmaker with a particular sense of time and place, and in his new feature, The Phoenician Scheme, there is much that is...
I have just spent a week in Israel and, while it may not look as if much has changed — the grinding war in the Gaza...
Cabinet records show that Australia went to war in Iraq in March 2003 with eyes fixed and brain narrowly engaged. The eyes were so set on...
“I’m very strongly of the belief that we are a country united under one flag,” Peter Dutton told Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News a few weeks before...
Rohan Howitt’s excellent new book, The Southern Frontier: Australia, Antarctica and Empire in the Southern Ocean World, landed in my mailbox on the same day Donald...
Last Wednesday Labor’s national secretary, Paul Erickson, delivered the traditional election winner’s speech at Canberra’s National Press Club. This opportunity to exercise bragging rights and feed...
When Didier Eribon’s mother was eighty-seven, he and his estranged brothers placed her in a nursing home in Fismes, near Reims, northeast of Paris. Within a...