Every autumn, in September and October, the British parliament is suspended to allow the political parties to hold their annual conferences. Normally only two of these...
The federal Coalition appears miles, light years, away from regaining office. It attracted a record low number of primary and two-party-preferred votes and seats in May....
This year marks the 150th birthday of Maurice Ravel and the centenary of Erik Satie’s death. The French composers knew and admired each other and their...
It was much more sedate than most Murdoch headlines: “News Corp Announces Resolution of Murdoch Family Trust Matter.” That innocuous phrase, “family trust matter,” hid the...
It was much more sedate than most Murdoch headlines: “News Corp Announces Resolution of Murdoch Family Trust Matter.” That innocuous phrase, “family trust matter,” hid the...
Standing beside Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on 17 September, Fijian prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka declared that “the people of Fiji share a very close religious and...
When Papua New Guinea became independent on 16 September 1975, Australia departed with high hopes and quiet fears. After a colonial/protectorate/trusteeship role of nearly seventy years,...
One Nation is surging in the opinion polls. By the party’s recent standards that is, and by recent Australian standards to be exact. Back in 1998,...
“The whole issue is so complex. And there’s so many layers to it, because we’ve got serving police officers accepting money from a newspaper, people at...
When I began my working life at the late and lamented Department of Trade and Resources I was still fresh from poring over The Crisis in...