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How to resist a tyrant
Linda Jaivin
18 July 2025
If democracy is the goal, non-violence is a better bet
International
Big, ugly and unpopular
Lesley Russell
16 July 2025
Donald Trump’s signature legislation will come back to bite the Republicans
National affairs
Officer-induced jeopardy
Karen Middleton
11 July 2025
The NT coroner spells out the long series of events that led to Kumanjayi Walker’s death
Books & arts
Richard Ellmann’s extraordinary achievement
Patrick Mullins
11 July 2025
An exhilarating account of a biographer at work
National affairs
How to disappear a problem
Dean Ashenden
10 July 2025
The school system has spent fifty years not fixing one of its central flaws
Books & arts
A stitch in crime
Jeremy Gans
9 July 2025
A prosecutor turned judge turned corruption czar looks back
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National affairs
National affairs
Let’s just get this done, shall we?
Karen Middleton
18 July 2025
A former Treasury secretary lays down the environmental law
National affairs
Parents and partners last?
Peter Mares
7 July 2025
Immigration might not be the headline issue it was before the election, but problems are mounting
National affairs
Crimes Act’s cyber tidy-up
Karen Middleton
4 July 2025
An auspiciously timed amendment to departmental responsibilities highlights a long delay in federal electronic-surveillance reforms
National affairs
Are pro-natalists living on the same planet?
John Quiggin
30 June 2025
Nostalgia-fuelled panic about declining populations doesn’t match plausible forecasts
National affairs
Whose voice?
Tim Rowse
30 June 2025
New shadow minister Kerrynne Liddle believes the rights of the vulnerable should take precedence over Indigenous rights
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
Keen as mustard
Anne-Marie Condé
18 July 2025
What
really
happened when boffins gathered in Canberra in 1939?
Essays & reportage
A political world we still inhabit
Frank Bongiorno
2 July 2025
Historian John Hirst founded a career on a distinctive view of colonial Australian politics
Essays & reportage
The rise and fall of John Pesutto
James Panichi
25 June 2025
A former leader’s trajectory is also the story of the Liberal Party’s narrowing base
Essays & reportage
A Silicon Valley for energy?
Ben Potter
24 June 2025
Australian solutions to renewable energy’s teething problems are attracting international interest
Essays & reportage
Quincentenary of a revolution
Klaus Neumann
17 June 2025
Commemorating the German Peasants’ War and an early charter of human rights
Books & arts
Books & arts
A kind of proto selfie
Richard Johnstone
18 July 2025
Like the technology it anticipated, the photobooth took the photographer out of the equation
Books & arts
Grave misgivings
Philippa Hawker
8 July 2025
In
The Shrouds
, David Cronenberg meditates on grief, death, technology and the erotic allure of conspiracy
Books & arts
Ghosts of dictatorships past
Andrew Bonnell
4 July 2025
Dictators don’t govern alone, which helps explain what happens once they’ve gone
Books & arts
The reformer
Emily Millane
4 July 2025
As Labor signals greater boldness, a seasoned policymaker and former MP describes how it’s done
Books & arts
How China put the bite on Apple
Michael Gill
3 July 2025
The tech giant helped turn its biggest partner into a world leader in electronics manufacturing
International
International
Can the world be governed without the US?
Michael Jacobs
5 July 2025
A UN conference discovers the absence of the United States can be an opportunity rather than a hindrance
International
Britain’s tough new test for fossil fuel projects
Fergus Green
3 July 2025
Britain has leapfrogged Australia with strong rules for proposed fossil fuel projects
International
Benefits and costs
Michael Jacobs
29 June 2025
Keir Starmer is paying a heavy price for spending cuts that lacked a defensible rationale
International
Trump’s war on knowledge
Lesley Russell
4 June 2025
Like his erratic tariff decisions, Donald Trump’s attack on universities will damage America itself
International
Flag fall
Nic Maclellan
28 May 2025
From Australia to New Caledonia, symbols of Indigenous sovereignty are proving divisive in both predictable and unpredictable ways
Other Voices
Other Voices
The wrong way to respond to antisemitism
Robert Manne
18 July 2025
Jillian Segal’s proposals won’t only erode free speech but could also worsen the problem she was asked to tackle
Other Voices
We finally know what “American carnage” was about
Paul Krugman
12 June 2025
Behind the sadism lies an attack on democracy
Other Voices
The flashing signals I saw in Israel
Thomas L. Friedman
30 May 2025
A broader antiwar movement is stirring
Other Voices
Is China the future?
Noah Smith
9 May 2025
What does it mean for China to be “the future”? And what does that future look like?
Other Voices
Donald Trump’s lose–lose tariffs
Noah Smith
16 April 2025
History shows tariffs are bad for rich economies — and Donald Trump’s decisions so far are actually reducing manufacturing investment