The obituaries for former Treasury secretary and National Party senator John Stone — who died last week at the age of ninety-six — have so far focused on his thirty-year career as a public servant, ...

Keen as mustard. The murder occurs on the first formal day of the congress, that day of 42.5C heat. A party is held at 3.30pm in the gardens of Parliament House. Marquees are set up among the young ...

It’s far less common, though, for a coroner to devote as much attention as Justice Elisabeth Armitage did to the background ...

Zachary Leader, an American literary scholar and biographer of Kingsley Amis and Saul Bellow, is another admirer of Ellmann’s big book. “An extraordinary achievement,” he calls it. Now, in Ellmann’s ...

This year the fourth of July marked more than the celebration of America’s Independence Day: it was the day Donald Trump signed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act (now referred to as OBBBA) into law.

Essays & reportage Lidia Thorpe, the UN Declaration and the mob out there Tim Rowse 20 March 2025 Despite her weakness for hyperbole, the high-profile senator has proposed a simple way of bringing ...

Books & arts The price of pleasure Zora Simic 5 June 2025 A journalist explores the “sexual wellness industry ...

In such times, it is useful to consider not just How Tyrants Fall, to quote the title of Marcel Dirsus’s excellent new book, but also the different forms that resistance can take. Jeffrey ...

The story of Elizabeth Macarthur, a driving force in early New South Wales, highlights some of the gaps in the story of colonial Australia, writes Michelle Scott Tucker ...

It is salutary to turn on the television on the morning after the biggest landslide to the Labor Party since 1943 and the Liberal Party’s worst-ever election defeat. We must have had Sky on by the ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

When another Newspoll dropped this week (51–49 in the Coalition’s favour, again) the Australian mentioned a change in how its pollsters will be estimating two-party-preferred figures between now and ...