The very right-wing Peter Dutton managed to hold the outfit together by sticking with the Morrison government’s net-zero-by-2050 pledge but proposing to achieve it via nuclear energy. The beauty of ...

I had a strange feeling today that we’d entered a true crime tale and it was unclear who the author was,” write Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein in The Mushroom Tapes, one of many ...

International Glass half full in Washington Michael Jacobs 27 April 2025 America played a less destructive role than feared at last week’s spring meetings of the World Bank and the IMF International ...

Dykes to Watch Out For, a widely syndicated strip cartoon series, ran from 1987 to 2008, ending only after Bechdel achieved ...

In recent weeks, two new Australian films have quietly called for — and deserved — our attention. They are Kangaroo (at least the third film with that title in our cinema history) and The Travellers, ...

Books & arts Certain ideas of France Anne Freadman 16 September 2025 Gertrude Stein’s latest biographer continues the debate about her wartime activities ...

For the shrinking fraction of the public that is even dimly aware of it, the image of psychoanalysis tends to be tarnished. Some of the lost lustre is the patina of age, the movement often viewed as a ...

The United States will NOT stand for this Global Green New Scam Tax on Shipping…” he declared on Truth Social. “We will not tolerate increased prices on American Consumers OR the creation of a Green ...

Books & arts Cross-class coupling Sara Dowse 13 June 2024 What can cross-class relationships tell us about Australia’s semi-visible inequalities? Books & arts Injured instincts Sara Dowse 12 May 2023 ...

Does Australia need more federal politicians? Special minister of state Don Farrell (and hence prime minister Anthony Albanese) seems to think so. Farrell included the idea in the terms of reference ...

The movement for civil and human rights chronicled by historian Benjamin Nathans in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, was an important moment in the long and ...