National affairs
25 April 2025
Retirements by longstanding MPs are adding to the election campaign’s complexity as it heads into its final week
Books & arts
24 April 2025
A new biography of Beatrice Faust illuminates a distinct strand of Australian feminism
National affairs
24 April 2025
Early voting, preference dealing, overinterpreted polls and an underwhelming debate: notes from another week of campaigning
Essays & reportage
24 April 2025
Sidney Nolan’s remarkable Gallipoli series brought together disparate strands of the artist’s life
National affairs
22 April 2025
Some polls are suggesting it will — but what distinguishes those polls from the ones that aren’t?
National affairs
National affairs
18 April 2025
Targeting the opposition leader’s seat serves more than one purpose for Labor
National affairs
15 April 2025
Peter Dutton’s housing announcement exposes the inconsistency in the opposition’s thinking
National affairs
11 April 2025
Attacking the government might have given the Coalition some easy wins over the past three years, but does it add up to an election strategy?
National affairs
11 April 2025
Slashing migration is much harder than it sounds
National affairs
9 April 2025
Pollsters are giving Labor a winning edge, but the government has reasons to be cautious
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
14 April 2025
Does the national two-party vote tell us whether Labor will finish with the most MPs, or will it come down to 150 seat-by-seat swings?
Essays & reportage
11 April 2025
A Yes voter’s journey into her family’s past raises the question: what about those who voted No?
Essays & reportage
11 April 2025
Is Peter Dutton’s energy plan going the way of a succession of nuclear pushes?
Essays & reportage
4 April 2025
A new book revives the debate about the behaviour of Australian troops in 1942
Essays & reportage
20 March 2025
Despite her weakness for hyperbole, the high-profile senator has proposed a simple way of bringing greater Indigenous scrutiny to parliament
Books & arts
Books & arts
17 April 2025
What can colonial portraits tell us about the past?
Books & arts
14 April 2025
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has built a political philosophy on her family’s efforts to reconcile the past and the future
Books & arts
10 April 2025
Robert Kaplan’s latest book is characteristically thoughtful and necessarily bleak
Books & arts
10 April 2025
A new film rises to the challenge of adapting a heartbreaking Irish novella
Books & arts
8 April 2025
As Australia faces a crisis of orientation, an expatriate argues that being adaptable is better than being visionary
International
International
21 April 2025
Canada’s Liberals enter the final week of the election campaign with plenty of help from south of the border
International
11 April 2025
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are responding to a similar problem in dramatically different ways
International
9 April 2025
A looming general election is highlighting the shortcomings of Singapore’s current generation of leaders
International
21 March 2025
The expulsion of social media’s “Yaya” has put a spotlight on the fine line between free speech and sedition in Taiwan
International
13 March 2025
At least one of its rivals will be rubbing its hands at Washington’s retreat from foreign aid and international institutions
Other Voices
Other Voices
16 April 2025
History shows tariffs are bad for rich economies — and Donald Trump’s decisions so far are actually reducing manufacturing investment
Other Voices
11 April 2025
A new study identifies which groups of readers prefer news sources that align with their own views
Other Voices
7 April 2025
Donald Trump’s trade policies couldn’t be more different from FDR’s labour-friendly efforts to open up America to the world
Other Voices
1 April 2025
J.D. Vance is attempting to straddle two diametrically opposed tendencies on the radical right
Other Voices
24 March 2025
The New Yorker’s chief fact-checker on how we squint to see more clearly