National Affairs
30 November 2023
Alan Kohler meets the ghost of Bob Menzies in the latest Quarterly Essay
National Affairs
30 November 2023
With the next election still at least a year away, is the Coalition on the right kind of roll?
National Affairs
National Affairs
15 November 2023
A High Court decision has added to concerns about jury behaviour that were passed over by a series of appeal judges
National Affairs
7 November 2023
The outgoing Grattan Institute chief executive strikes an optimistic note in this year’s Freebairn Lecture
National Affairs
6 November 2023
Railing against the elites, the Australian’s editor-at-large has missed real messages in the Voice vote
National Affairs
30 October 2023
Australian health policy doesn’t treat it that way, but dental care is a medical issue
National Affairs
24 October 2023
… and other encounters with Bill Hayden, foreign minister 1983–88
Essays & Reportage
Essays & Reportage
24 November 2023
What guidance for the challenges facing the planet can we find in the words of one of Australia’s greatest prime ministers?
Essays & Reportage
23 November 2023
Shaped by history, Sylvie Leber and her forebears have campaigned for social change
Essays & Reportage
1 November 2023
The federal government’s plans are receiving cautious support in unexpected quarters
Essays & Reportage
20 October 2023
When the history of electric vehicles is written, who will be seen as central?
Essays & Reportage
12 October 2023
“You don’t even look Nyoongar,” they told the author as a schoolgirl. “Are you sure you’re Aboriginal?”
Books & Arts
Books & Arts
29 November 2023
A novelist’s correspondence gives rare insights into his life and work
Books & Arts
29 November 2023
A defence of Joe Biden’s record highlights a deeper problem
Books & Arts
21 November 2023
Russia’s war against Ukraine is generating a rich historiography
Books & Arts
21 November 2023
Caught between their home villages and the city, a generation of Chinese migrant workers struggles for intimacy
Books & Arts
20 November 2023
Adam Sisman lifts the curtain on his dealings with John le Carré
International
International
17 November 2023
What might a postwar scenario look like in Israel and Palestine?
International
7 November 2023
The Republican Party might not be American democracy’s only enemy, but it’s the biggest
International
1 November 2023
And what it means for Gaza’s future
International
30 October 2023
Anthony Albanese’s visit to China late this week comes almost exactly fifty years after Gough Whitlam’s pioneering trip
International
27 October 2023
Despite potential pitfalls, the Indonesian president seems set on creating a new political dynasty
Correspondents
Correspondents
24 November 2023
Hsiao Bi-khim’s impressive record might help save Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party from electoral defeat
Correspondents
24 November 2023
The Solomon Islands prime minister has played off China and the West remarkably well
Correspondents
20 November 2023
A lawyer in the Marshall Islands, a former US national archivist and a Catalan museum director came together to protect vital archives
Correspondents
1 November 2023
Continued killings suggest that the violence unleashed by the former Philippines president has become endemic
Correspondents
12 October 2023
In Taipei, National Day tests the temperature of nationalist sentiment