As biographer and subject, Ann Powers and Joni Mitchell make perfect sense. Mitchell is widely considered to be the best female singer songwriter of all time,...
Will the next federal election, due by May next year, result in a hung parliament? Everyone seems to think so. The opinion poll ingredients — low...
The Russian analyst could not have been more explicit: “The lessons of the intervention in Syria are clear,” he wrote on 8 December in the business...
In the wake of Joe Biden’s narrow victory in 2020 and the abortive Trump insurrection that followed, one important fact stood out for Marcy Kaptur, a...
Kevin Rudd’s new book, On Xi Jinping, explores the ideology and worldview of Chinese president Xi Jinping, more formally known as general secretary of the Chinese...
“Meritocracy” is one of the great taken-for-granteds of our times. When the Productivity Commission looked at social mobility rates recently it reported in tones of relief...
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s song, “The Folks Who Live on the Hill,” contains the lines: “Our verandah will command a view of meadows green, /...
After a distinguished career in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Geoff Raby has become a consultant and widely published commentator on the dovish side...
I didn’t really know what I was looking for, but with me that’s usually how these things begin. I was at the National Library of Australia...
The fall of French prime minister Michel Barnier has shocked the many New Caledonians still reeling from the economic, cultural and social damage wrought by six...