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National affairs Pacific headwinds Hamish McDonald 2 December 2025 A muddled year in the region for Labor ends with the Pacific affairs minister disagreeing with his own government National affairs Zero-sum game Peter Brent 13 November 2025 Whatever the short-term advantages of dumping net zero, the Libs have also created electoral challenges for themselves National affairs 1975: the Senate’s unconventional year Paul Rodan 10 November 2025 Two breaches of parliamentary convention made possible the dismissal of Gough Whitlam’s government National affairs Jim Chalmers is here “to run the joint” Karen Middleton 7 November 2025 Was the treasurer channelling Paul Keating at ANU this week?

Books & arts Emotional inheritances Stephen Young 5 December 2025 Sovereign is a nuanced portrayal of sovereign-citizen beliefs Books & arts Can we not live with Patrick White any longer? Nicholas Jose 5 December 2025 “In White, Beckett meets Groucho Marx — and both fuse in an Elizabethan tragedy,” says a passionate new defence of the Nobel Prize–winning writer Books & arts Dark passions and inflammatory speech James Walter 1 December 2025 Is democracy more likely to perish from within than at the hands of external enemies? Books & arts A day with Tom Stoppard and his biographer Glyn Davis 30 November 2025 On the death of the playwright this weekend, a brief memory

Other Voices China’s people are stuck on a treadmill Noah Smith 17 November 2025 They’re working hard for someone else’s benefit Other Voices Jeffrey Epstein is a policy issue David Dayen 14 November 2025 It’s about elite impunity, the defining issue in America for more than two decades Other Voices Which party is in trouble, again? Paul Krugman 7 November 2025 If more evidence of Donald Trump’s electoral toxicity was needed, this week’s votes provided it Other Voices Why do we still have so many radiologists? Noah Smith 17 October 2025 AI model-makers predicted a sharp dropoff in jobs. So far, reality is refusing to oblige