The post-American world arrived with a bang when Donald Trump declared a pox on Pax Americana. The gradual erosion of American leadership went into hyperdrive because...
China’s fastest-growing industries are being told to curb their aggressive price competition. Beijing has evidently decided to confront the excesses of its past investment policy, but...
South Africa has only one traditional-looking cathedral. It’s not in any of the major cities, but in Makhanda (Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape. Therein lies a...
The obituaries for former Treasury secretary and National Party senator John Stone — who died last week at the age of ninety-six — have so far...
Few who sat down to hear Ken Henry speak about environment law this week would have been surprised by his blunt analysis. But they may not...
If you are old enough to remember ANZAAS congresses, you might be wondering what happened to them. The last one was held in Adelaide in 1997....
Alan Adler, who died earlier this year at the age of ninety-three, was for more than fifty years the owner and operator of a series of...
Several excellent critiques of Jillian Segal’s “Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism” have appeared, by Louise Adler (the Guardian), Henry Reynolds (Pearls and Irritations), Nick Feik...
The United States is slip-sliding towards authoritarianism under Donald Trump. Elected leaders in Israel, Turkey and Hungary have blurred the line between democracy and dictatorship. North...
This year the fourth of July marked more than the celebration of America’s Independence Day: it was the day Donald Trump signed his One Big Beautiful...