It was the announcement that didn’t happen. The federal government usually enters each new financial year with “planning levels” for the permanent migration program. Typically, these...
Global governance is a tricky thing at the best of times. As the United Nations turns eighty, its charter’s opening words — “We, the peoples of...
Just over a week ago, the government did some quiet tidying up. Having made structural changes to a few federal portfolios — most notably shifting the...
The world seemed simpler in the 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the events it came to symbolise: the collapse of Soviet-backed regimes...
For well over a decade, Australian policy-makers, journalists and commentators have been absorbed by the question of whether governments have the capacity for significant reform. Can...
It doesn’t matter that Washington and Beijing have reached an inconclusive and temporary truce in Mr Trump’s trade war. The US president immediately claimed it as...
When Jamie Hanson reviewed the documentary Turn Every Page for Inside Story, he singled out a scene — a search for a yellow pencil — that...
In marked contrast to federal and state governments in Australia, the British government has tightened its official guidance for new oil and gas extraction projects. Informed...
In marked contrast to federal and state governments in Australia, the British government has tightened its official guidance for new oil and gas extraction projects. Informed...
There was a persistent theme, especially among younger historians, in the tributes that appeared on social media to the eminent historian John Hirst on the news...