It’s always instructive to see how a government behaves in the days before an election is called. At the end of a budget week we weren’t...
Government schools, even in Queensland, will at last get the full Gonski. That is a win: not as big a win as it would have been...
What is a tribe? Anthropologists use the term very cautiously, for it has lost its earlier meanings of ethnicity and bounded social groups and taken on...
Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada begins with the preparation of a room. There’s a practised efficiency as well as a ritual quality to the way three people...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers pulled one unexpected rabbit out of his hat in last night’s budget — a one percentage point cut in the bottom marginal tax...
Things are getting complicated on the environment front. Late last year the prime minister withdrew plans to create a federal environmental protection agency (promised before the...
The Melanesian arc running from New Guinea to Fiji is also an arc across Australia, the geography loaded with history and strategic weight. Australia’s life in...
Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late.Facts all come with points of view. Facts don’t do what I want...
The name Miles Franklin will be familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in Australian literary culture. When the writer died in 1954 she bequeathed...
Donald Trump has declared 2 April “a Liberation Day” for the United States because “we’re going to be getting back a lot of the wealth that...