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What is a library?
Kieran Hegarty
6 November 2024
Targeted by hackers and sued by publishers, the Internet Archive continues to push boundaries
International
Testing time for America’s pollsters
Peter Brent
5 November 2024
After two presidential misfires in a row, the polls are under intense scrutiny ahead of tomorrow’s vote
Books & arts
A kind of social architecture
Frances Flanagan
5 November 2024
The case for valuing and protecting “connective labour” in an increasingly automated and disconnected world
Books & arts
Summoning the spark
Andrew Ford
4 November 2024
A poem, a painting, a chance remark — almost anything can ignite the composer’s imagination
National affairs
Leaders and leaders
Mark Baker
4 November 2024
Ahead of this week’s presidential election, billionaire newspaper owners have created a furore by blocking their editors’ endorsements
Books & arts
Let them not eat Tip Truck Cake
Anne-Marie Condé
31 October 2024
Triple-tested in its own kitchen, the
Women’s Weekly
’s recipes helped shape Australian tastes. But it had its rivals
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National affairs
National affairs
Jason Clare’s dead parrot
Dean Ashenden
24 October 2024
Labor’s “national approach” to schooling has failed. It’s time for a rethink
National affairs
Getting schooling wrong
Dean Ashenden
27 September 2024
The
Monthly
and the
Saturday Paper
are campaigning for fairer school funding. But are they missing the deeper story?
National affairs
Antitrust’s Big Tobacco moment
James Panichi & Ryan Cropp
25 September 2024
Has Big Tech’s big-spending campaign against competition law come to a university near you?
National affairs
There’s a Wills but is there a way?
Peter Brent
24 September 2024
Bob Hawke’s old seat is among the Greens’ best prospects, but the redistribution isn’t quite the gift it looks
National affairs
The enemy within
Mark Baker
17 September 2024
The government wants to rule a line under criminal behaviour in the military, but internal resistance remains strong
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
Staying in the room
Hamish McDonald
21 October 2024
Can the “brainy and agile” Penny Wong counter the power of US-centric defence and security agencies?
Essays & reportage
White lies, archival truths and R.J.L. Hawke
Michael Piggott
17 October 2024
What the record reveals about the future prime minister and the ornamental pond
Essays & reportage
Monumental silence
Dean Ashenden
10 October 2024
As the first anniversary of the Voice vote approaches, should we be thinking differently about truth-telling?
Essays & reportage
If you want to fix America, fix Detroit
Don Watson
25 September 2024
Once a symbol of greatness, the city’s uneven decline mirrors the national malaise
Essays & reportage
People-watching in Port Moresby
Gordon Peake
14 September 2024
Our correspondent reacquaints himself with the PNG capital, a place getting a lot more attention these days
Books & arts
Books & arts
Trade’s political problem
Susan Stone
6 November 2024
A former trade negotiator sets out to imprive trade’s profile and reputation
Books & arts
In the face of death
Jacinta Halloran
1 November 2024
Life’s binaries bleed into each other in a spirited memoir shadowed by a terminal illness
Books & arts
Have you been working hard recently?
John Docker
1 November 2024
Our reviewer savours an idiosyncratic account of the Queen, on and off duty
Books & arts
Opening doors in Central Australia
Glenn Nicholls
1 November 2024
A Lutheran pastor introduced to remote communities a different way of thinking about schooling for Aboriginal children
Books & arts
“Got a light?”
Jim Davidson
24 October 2024
Peter Parker has trawled widely to produce a documentary history of gay life in London from postwar repression to the hope induced by 1957’s Wolfenden report
International
International
Beijing’s brake
Saul Eslake
24 October 2024
All signs suggest that China is in the grip of a long, self-induced economic slowdown
International
Gathering storm
Tony Walker
3 October 2024
As the risk of region-wide war grows in the Middle East, the United States looks increasingly like an ineffectual bystander
International
Fractured consensus
Tony Walker
2 September 2024
As Israeli protesters take to the streets, news emerges that defence minister Yoav Gallant has clashed again with Benjamin Netanyahu
International
Lords of the wasteland
Hamish McDonald
30 August 2024
A military analyst and an economist see Myanmar’s junta heading towards a desperate fight for survival
International
In Bangladesh, a Nobel laureate’s final act
Thomas Kean
21 August 2024
The rebellion that put Muhammad Yunus at the helm should prompt reflection in Canberra and other foreign capitals
Correspondents
Correspondents
Historic gender gap? Maybe. Maybe not
Bill Scher
2 November 2024
Almost every presidential election since 1980 has had a double-digit gender gap. What do the polls suggest about next week’s?
Correspondents
Sri Lanka’s third way
Alan Keenan
30 October 2024
Faced with difficult circumstances, a new leftist president has so far struck a deft balance
Correspondents
Eye of the storm
Lesley Russell
13 October 2024
Climate has made a dramatic intervention in the US election
Correspondents
Germany’s new normal
Klaus Neumann
1 October 2024
Why have Germans suddenly joined the far right in opposing immigrants?
Correspondents
It’s not just police who police
Nic Maclellan
20 September 2024
An Australian plan to improve policing in the Pacific deals with just one element of the islands’ crime and conflict problem