Deng Xiaoping arrived first. Striding into a reception room of the Great Hall of the People beside Tiananmen Square, the Chinese leader paused to greet the...
Clare Wight’s latest book, Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions, is the third volume of her history of Australian democracy. The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, which came...
It takes some hutzpah to set about remaking The Day of the Jackal. The fact that it has taken almost fifty years for anyone to attempt...
Whoever decided to hold the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro at the same time as the UN COP29 climate conference in Baku clearly had a...
One day in March 2008 Rupert Murdoch was sitting in a plane on the tarmac in Florida when news broke that New York governor Eliot Spitzer...
In the documentary No Other Land, a handheld camera represents a way of recording and revealing, a form of witness and an affirmation of memory. “I...
Special minister of state Don Farrell described Labor’s major bill to reconfigure campaign finance — released yesterday — as a “comprehensive” “once in a generation” reform....
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,...