Johanna Ekström was a Swedish poet, fiction writer and visual artist who died at the early age of fifty-one after a melanoma was discovered in her...
“There are three rooms here in the Gran Café de Paris, each reserved for specific clientele,” declared Hashim, my bookish, puckish guide to Tangier and its...
The critically acclaimed Chinese-language film Black Dog, currently showing in Australian cinemas, tells the story of a man and a dog, a common subject in English-language...
Running through Anne Maxwell and Lucy Van’s new book, Australian Women’s Historical Photography, is the word “freedom,” sometimes used by the authors and sometimes by the...
If you want to understand the first few weeks of the second Trump administration, you should listen to what Steve Bannon told PBS’s “Frontline” in 2019:...
How popular or unpopular was the Palaszczuk government in early to mid 2022? Was it a drag on federal Labor’s Queensland vote at the 21 May...
As a historian with a close interest in contemporary policy, John Murphy is well aware of the need to learn carefully from past successes, failures and...
In June last year one of our best-known international affairs analysts, Sam Roggeveen of the Lowy Institute, floated a striking proposal in the journal Australian Foreign...
When Joe Biden took office, he inherited an immigration system obliterated by four years of intentional sabotage. From January 2017 to January 2021, during Donald Trump’s...
In 2011, back when Julia Gillard was prime minister, the federal government brought together most of its social security functions — Centrelink, Medicare and much more...