National affairs
7 November 2025
Was the treasurer channelling Paul Keating at ANU this week?
International
6 November 2025
Is the US president coming round to a power-sharing arrangement with China, as long predicted by Australian strategist Hugh White?
Essays & reportage
4 November 2025
Despite grappling with a double disadvantage, Margaret Walkom resolved to go her own way
Books & arts
3 November 2025
Done properly, psychoanalysis doesn’t provide ready answers, says practitioner Stephen Grosz
Books & arts
31 October 2025
The curious afterlife of Samuel Pepys’s diary
National affairs
National affairs
27 October 2025
The ambassador proves easy prey for hacks in the hunt for headlines
National affairs
23 October 2025
Labor is testing the arguments — and support — for more MPs and fixed four-year terms
National affairs
22 October 2025
Australia must be careful its rare-earth ambitions don’t force a choice between China and America
National affairs
21 October 2025
Wins for Australia at the White House and a whack for the ambassador
National affairs
17 October 2025
The pretenders to the Liberal throne are united by one thing — a lack of electability
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
28 October 2025
Old-timers still abound in the Pacific
Essays & reportage
15 October 2025
A visit to Australia helps unlock a mystery
Essays & reportage
15 September 2025
What does a ban on men’s shirts have to do with Papua New Guinea’s independence?
Essays & reportage
12 September 2025
It’s the country of many failures that hasn’t failed
Essays & reportage
19 August 2025
Donald Trump’s contemptuous treatment of much of Asia and the Pacific has created opportunities for China — and Australia
Books & arts
Books & arts
9 November 2025
Three writers talk about what could and couldn’t be talked about at Erin Patterson’s murder trial
Books & arts
5 November 2025
The Travellers and Kangaroo reviewed
Books & arts
30 October 2025
Political dejection creates disengaged citizens, says a new synthesis of psychology, sociology and political science
Books & arts
29 October 2025
Southeast Asia has moved to the centre of China–US rivalry
Books & arts
29 October 2025
Uwe Wittstock’s Marseille 1940 is a marvel of narrative art
International
International
7 November 2025
The meaning of Donald Trump’s pledge to restart nuclear testing still isn’t clear. But Vladimir Putin this week threatened “appropriate retaliatory steps”
International
29 October 2025
The US administration has intensified its efforts to turn back the sustainability tide
International
20 October 2025
The Nobel committee is working hard to encourage a broadening of economics
International
17 October 2025
Nothing in the American president’s record suggests he has any understanding of the complex, multifaceted effort needed to preserve peace
International
17 October 2025
The US president’s erratic approach to pharmaceutical pricing won’t do much to help Americans. But what about Australians?
Other Voices
Other Voices
7 November 2025
If more evidence of Donald Trump’s electoral toxicity was needed, this week’s votes provided it
Other Voices
17 October 2025
AI model-makers predicted a sharp dropoff in jobs. So far, reality is refusing to oblige
Other Voices
10 October 2025
This feels like another tech-fuelled sharemarket bubble, but there’s one big difference
Other Voices
26 September 2025
The Chinese-owned video platform has become the largest source of news for Australians under twenty-five. Now Donald Trump wants it run in America by the Murdochs and other…
Other Voices
16 September 2025
The Biden White House might not have been setting up the vice-president for failure, but it didn’t do much to help her