In his new book, We Should Be So Lucky, investment banker and arts patron Andrew Low asserts outright what most Australians think but can’t be bothered...
Jess Hill’s See What You Made Me Do was an arresting account of women’s and children’s experiences of abuse, the systems that support their perpetrators, and...
One of America’s worst commentators on politics, Batya Ungar-Sargon, recently compared Donald Trump to a “21st century FDR,” since he is supposedly trying to help out...
Visitors to the Hotel Robert in Saint Pierre et Miquelon, just off the coast of Newfoundland, can view a straw hat that purportedly belonged to Al...
If anyone doubted that Australia’s most important diplomatic relationship is now brutally transactional, Thursday’s mugged-by-reality announcement in Washington should relegate the idea to fantasy land. In...
Michael Tippett completed his fifth and final opera, New Year, in 1988, the English composer’s own eighty-fourth year. It had its first production at Houston Grand...
The fall of Singapore in February 1942 remains the greatest disaster in Australian military history. The collapse of Britain’s supposedly impenetrable fortress in the Far East...
The competition between Australia’s two major political parties has two characteristics that encourage polarisation. As a zero-sum game, it doesn’t allow for mutual advancement or compromise;...
We have a tendency to overestimate how unified our political adversaries are, because of a particular version of what psychologists call the “fundamental attribution error.” When...
As we enter the election campaign proper, Labor and the Coalition are promising to make our lives much better. Inflation will go down and wages up,...