As the world remembers the end of the Pacific war, many stories will be told of momentous events and remarkable lives. But perhaps only one, left...
Tasmania presents something of a political conundrum. In May 2023 its Liberal government fell into minority with the defection of two members, John Tucker and Lara...
“South Australia has one of the finest governments of the eighteenth century.” So said the singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer responding to the state government’s banning of five...
The world’s highest court has just given the Australian government a giant climate headache. For all the rhetorical, political and practical support Australia offers the small...
Australia’s new communications minister Anika Wells had some big files in the in-tray she inherited in May. Among the most pressing was the future of free-to-air...
Last week, kicking off a 15 per cent reduction in the US state department’s workforce, more than 1300 officials received termination notices. Those considered surplus included...
There’s a story about Hubert Parry, King Charles’s favourite composer, hearing Arnold Schoenberg’s atonal Five Orchestral Pieces Op. 16. It was in 1914, two years before...
To really understand a regime, it seems, you need to see inside its political prisons. And in recent years, a succession of intelligent Australians has unwillingly...
If the biggest surprise of May’s federal election was its lopsided result, a secondary one was the extent to which the Coalition had guzzled down the...
On 9 May 1927, almost three decades after federation, Australia’s Commonwealth parliament finally moved from Melbourne to Canberra. Around 30,000 spectators travelled from all over the...