Arrogant, disrespectful, racist and a liar. When the Northern Territory coroner presented her 683-page report on the death of nineteen-year-old Kumanjayi Walker on Monday, those were...
The world of Joycean studies is, on the face of it, downright bizarre. What is there to say about the professors who pore over the puns...
Early in 1973 the Karmel committee, created by the new and aggressively reformist Whitlam government, was hard at work devising a way for all schools, including...
When I was a law student in the early nineties, I met a federal prosecutor at a party. I told her that she had my dream...
In 2021, David Cronenberg released the briefest of short works, made with his daughter Cressida. The Death of David Cronenberg featured the director contemplating a realistic...
It was the announcement that didn’t happen. The federal government usually enters each new financial year with “planning levels” for the permanent migration program. Typically, these...
Global governance is a tricky thing at the best of times. As the United Nations turns eighty, its charter’s opening words — “We, the peoples of...
Just over a week ago, the government did some quiet tidying up. Having made structural changes to a few federal portfolios — most notably shifting the...
The world seemed simpler in the 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the events it came to symbolise: the collapse of Soviet-backed regimes...
For well over a decade, Australian policy-makers, journalists and commentators have been absorbed by the question of whether governments have the capacity for significant reform. Can...