Correspondents
14 February 2025
Spooked by the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, Keir Starmer’s Labour government has toughened its border policies
Books & arts
14 February 2025
Much good luck and a degree of good management enabled the long-serving prime minister to ride the postwar boom
Books & arts
13 February 2025
A diary of a terminal illness becomes an intimate tribute to friendship
Essays & reportage
11 February 2025
Coming across a “perfect moment” in literary Tangier
Books & arts
11 February 2025
Has Guan Hu made a film about the feral dogs of Chixia — or about China itself?
National affairs
National affairs
18 February 2025
Newspoll is changing the way it estimates how voters will direct their preferences
National affairs
7 February 2025
History suggests Labor’s state election loss in the Sunshine State last October might — just might — work in Anthony Albanese’s favour
National affairs
7 February 2025
A Darwin school’s decision to drop Indonesian points to a broader failure
National affairs
5 February 2025
A new report on Services Australia highlights the failings of public service capability reviews
National affairs
28 January 2025
Can South Australia’s flicker of educational inspiration be turned into a beacon?
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
28 January 2025
Future MP Race Mathews had an insider’s view of policy development — not least health policy — in the office of the leader of the opposition
Essays & reportage
23 December 2024
Whatever happened to the communal enjoyment of poetry?
Essays & reportage
18 December 2024
Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons
Essays & reportage
10 December 2024
A taken-for-granted is being questioned at last, with implications in education and elsewhere
Essays & reportage
6 December 2024
Great Australians brought freshly researched history by fine writers and historians to a generation of Australians
Books & arts
Books & arts
10 February 2025
From the late nineteenth century, new lightweight cameras opened up the world in ways their manufacturers didn’t anticipate
Books & arts
7 February 2025
A new history of Australia’s postwar welfare system provides plenty of lessons for a better future
Books & arts
5 February 2025
Economic and political pressures are pulling in different directions in Xi Jinping’s China
Books & arts
4 February 2025
Stigmatised in the publishing world’s past, romance writers were ready for its future
Books & arts
4 February 2025
The intelligencer who built Australia’s spy service
International
International
3 February 2025
History collided with the ambitions of Narendra Modi’s government at India’s Maha Kumbh festival
International
28 January 2025
Despite a bumpy year for India, Narendra Modi’s BJP shows signs of an electoral bounce
International
13 January 2025
Behind a veneer of optimism, Australia’s strategic establishment is watching Donald Trump nervously
International
19 December 2024
Whatever’s going on in the American skies, the action on the ground is worth exploring
International
18 December 2024
A new documentary featuring leaked interrogation footage shows Israel’s PM under pressure
Correspondents
Correspondents
13 January 2025
The Georgian government’s overreach has galvanised opponents of its authoritarian turn
Correspondents
6 January 2025
Donald Trump’s trade threat has brought to a head the unrest within Justin Trudeau’s government
Correspondents
6 December 2024
A government collapses in Paris, and the shockwaves extend as far as Nouméa
Correspondents
25 November 2024
British Labour’s early missteps are sullying its promise of renewal. The prime minister, unmoved, is reaching for the stars
Correspondents
25 November 2024
Another cliffhanger climate conference achieves a kind of progress