The attack on Helen Haines has sharpened concern about political violence. Regulating platforms and policing threats matter, ...

From apartheid South Africa to Rwanda, the ICC and Gaza, Navi Pillay’s career has been built on the belief that international law must protect people from abuses of state power.

AUKUS is sold as a sovereign Australian defence capability. But its strategic logic and dependence on US systems raise a harder question: whose homeland is it really designed to defend?

As diplomacy resumes, a proposed settlement would combine Ukrainian neutrality and EU membership with an armistice line, limits on NATO enlargement and a new European security framework.

Framing the Pacific as a permanent contest with China overstates the symmetry between the two powers, underestimates Pacific agency and risks producing the very outcome Australia fears.

In the first of our pieces leading up to Israel’s election on Tuesday, Gideon Levy returns to a 1997 photograph of Israeli and Palestinian lawmakers together – and to a political world that now seems ...

The World Food Programme is cutting food assistance to half a million people in Gaza as funding falls sharply, with ...

Australia’s illicit tobacco crisis has reopened doors long closed to Big Tobacco, as companies lobby for excise cuts and gain ...

Buying thousands of operations from private hospitals may cut waiting lists temporarily, but it does little to solve the ...

The abuse directed at Helen Haines after she was critically injured exposes a culture in which grievance towards women is ...

Housing tax reform shows how strongly tax settings shape behaviour. Australia should now shift more of the tax burden from ...

Lobbying, political donations, revolving doors and appeals to jobs and national prosperity have helped keep coal and gas ...