What is the best way of working out whether Labor or the Coalition will win next month’s election outright — or, failing that, which will be...
Throughout last year, Western Sydney Liberals from non-English-speaking backgrounds pleaded privately for Peter Dutton to tone down his language about the war in Gaza. Alongside his...
Who actually wants impartial news? Your first thought might be: everybody! After all, if news is meant to be a reflection of reality, wouldn’t you want...
Truth-telling has been losing ground ever since 10 December 1992, the day Keating PM told his truths to a predominantly Aboriginal audience at Redfern oval. “We...
My son, who is studying in London, was amused recently when an ad popped up on his social media feed encouraging him to head to Australia...
Amid the chaos created by Donald Trump’s uninhibited prejudices and powerplay, the view from Australia reveals challenges that demand close understanding and attention. The risks are...
Australia’s nuclear debate re-ignited last year when the Peter Dutton released the Coalition’s plan to use nuclear power rather than renewables to meet Australia’s emissions-reduction obligations....
The American writer Robert D. Kaplan has been serving up elegant, unstinting and often prescient prose about the bleak realities of the world for going on...
Spare and haunting, Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These works in undemonstrative ways. The prose has an inexorable quality, a kind of flow; the accumulation of...
“Kishore, Singapore would have no problems if Lee Kuan Yew were immortal. Alas he’s mortal.”— Former deputy prime minister Goh Keng Swee, in conversation with Singapore’s...