Cabinet records show that Australia went to war in Iraq in March 2003 with eyes fixed and brain narrowly engaged. The eyes were so set on...
“I’m very strongly of the belief that we are a country united under one flag,” Peter Dutton told Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News a few weeks before...
Rohan Howitt’s excellent new book, The Southern Frontier: Australia, Antarctica and Empire in the Southern Ocean World, landed in my mailbox on the same day Donald...
Last Wednesday Labor’s national secretary, Paul Erickson, delivered the traditional election winner’s speech at Canberra’s National Press Club. This opportunity to exercise bragging rights and feed...
When Didier Eribon’s mother was eighty-seven, he and his estranged brothers placed her in a nursing home in Fismes, near Reims, northeast of Paris. Within a...
Labor’s electoral mastermind Paul Erickson has reached back seventy-five years to find the right historical analogy to describe the implications of Labor’s huge win. In his...
David Littleproud’s ultimatum to the Liberal Party this week may yet go down as the greatest own goal in Australian politics since Peter Dutton ended Malcolm...
The seemingly temporary demise of the Coalition agreement calls into question the common assumption that Australia, at least up until recently, has a two-party system. The...
On 4 May Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce, in typically incoherent language, that he was planning to introduce a 100 per cent tariff...
Last month marked eighty years since the death of two earthshaking titans of the twentieth century, each of whom shared the grand illusion that he alone...