The Adelaide protest against the visit of Israel’s president drew thousands and passed peacefully. Yet its treatment in the ...

The Jeffrey Epstein case is often treated as an exceptional crime enabled by extraordinary wealth. In reality, it reveals how ...

Meanjin’s return to Brisbane under QUT stewardship has been widely welcomed, but it also exposes deeper tensions about arts ...

Calls to strip Grace Tame of her Australian of the Year award over her protest speech highlight a troubling slide towards political punishment and selective free speech.

John Menadue, and the late Susie Menadue, did an incomparable job in conceiving, establishing, growing and nurturing Pearls and Irritations as a brave and independent alternative to the conformity of ...

A regional peace settlement grounded in Palestinian statehood, international law and mutual security guarantees offers a real alternative to perpetual conflict.

Angela Glindemann is a writer (often as Ange Crawford), editor, educator and PhD candidate living on unceded Wurundjeri land in Australia. In her doctoral research at RMIT, she is developing an ...

Angus Taylor has all the on-paper qualifications to be opposition leader. But what's needed now is a miracle worker to lift the struggling Liberal Party from its existential crisis.

John launched his influential public policy journal Pearls and Irritations at publish.pearlsandirritations.com in January 2013. There are now more than 26,000 subscribers.

David Armstrong has been a journalist, in Australia and Asia, for more than 50 years. He has been a Pearls & Irritations contributor for more than 10 years and writes a regular column on Asian media.

Catriona began her working life as a journalist and has remained one by instinct and inclination across a diverse 30-year career, having served at the highest levels in politics, advocacy, campaigning ...