The pollster YouGov has begun releasing survey results generated by the relatively novel technique known as multilevel regression with post stratification, or MRP. Although it demands...
While it’s generally poor taste to mention an author’s age, it’s uplifting for many reasons to read a highly accomplished biography by a ninety-four-year-old writer dealing...
It’s a weekday afternoon in late February and I’m taking a nostalgic walk around the leafy streets of the suburb where I grew up. West Pymble,...
The Vatican has the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith. Australian schooling has AERO. New, not very important but very symptomatic, the Australian Education Research...
A couple of years ago a friend asked me to select a poem to read at her wedding. She was marrying her beloved girlfriend and there...
What does it take to be appointed as a cabinet secretary or other senior member of Donald Trump’s second administration? Expertise and experience in the pertinent...
Early in A Political Memoir, as Robert Manne evokes how “the post-Enlightenment dream of Germany as a home for Jews” so completely corrupted around his maternal...
Generous windows in the timber-framed entrance spill winter sun across a patterned floor. Light bounces off the glazed tiles lining the walls. Pendant lightfittings dangle from...
Media Watch, ABC’s long-running scourge of shoddy journalistic practices, is back for another year with Linton Besser as its eighth resident host. This was an opportunity...
Dual biographies are a flavourful dish spiced by the interactions between their subjects — be they political rivals (like Éamon de Valera and Michael Collins in...