Centuries of marauding foreign invaders; poor infrastructure; organised crime networks; high unemployment — hasn’t Sicily suffered enough? Then along comes Netflix’s adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di...
It’s refreshing to learn that treasurer Jim Chalmers is willing to entertain more substantial tax reforms than the ones Labor took to this year’s election (principally,...
Young voters are back! Or maybe they never left. Articles and talk programs pondering whether the youth vote “might decide the outcome this time” have been...
What strikes me most about the Aboriginal people I know is their generosity. Australian colonial history has given them endless reasons not to be generous, but...
The most striking observation in Dean Spears and Michael Geruso’s new book, After the Spike, is summed up by the cover illustration, which shows a world...
Of all the economic problems proclaimed in the run-up to next week’s economic summit, the most alarming is that business investment is very weak. “Business investment...
Housing minister Clare O’Neil says it’s “just too hard” to build houses in this country because “builders face a ridiculous thicket of red tape.” That must...
It’s a niche category, I know: but who’s your favourite American visitor to Australia? My vote goes to Mark Twain, who wrote during his wildly successful...
It is easy to agree with Alexander Vindman about the shortcomings of the international relations theory that calls itself “realism.” As a way of explaining the...
Donald Trump has already claimed that his promotion of ceasefires in Africa and Asia makes him fully deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize, but if he...