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AUKUS’s missing price tag
Karen Middleton
13 June 2025
Anthony Albanese heads to Canada for an uncertain meeting with an unpredictable president
Books & arts
Alone like a finger
Nick Haslam
13 June 2025
It was writing that “separated me from everything,” says German writer Judith Hermann in a captivating collection of biographical essays
Books & arts
What goes around
Andrew Ford
13 June 2025
What “Scarborough Fair” tells us about popular music-making
Books & arts
Democracy in an age of emergencies
Stephen Mills
12 June 2025
Can democracy respond effectively when the future is breathing down our necks?
Books & arts
Essential services
Paddy Gourley
12 June 2025
Celebrated American author Michael Lewis brings together an emblematic group of public servants
Other Voices
We finally know what “American carnage” was about
Paul Krugman
12 June 2025
Behind the sadism lies an attack on democracy
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National affairs
National affairs
Contested possession
Ian McShane
10 June 2025
A government falls in Tasmania as debate redoubles over a costly AFL-imposed stadium
National affairs
Labor’s Russian embassy headache returns to court
Karen Middleton
6 June 2025
The looming hearing recalls cold war battles and a more recent courtroom defeat
National affairs
Riding high
Paul Rodan
4 June 2025
The final election count adds up to a remarkable win for Labor, but history offers warnings
National affairs
Australia’s widening wealth gap, and what to do about it
Saul Eslake
3 June 2025
Growing wealth inequality is setting Australia up for conflict, but solutions aren’t out of reach
National affairs
Treasury tools up for housing
Peter Mares
2 June 2025
Clare O’Neil has gained extra ministerial clout, and that could be good news for housing policy and programs
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
The American clever man
Martin Thomas
5 June 2025
How an Arnhem Land community distilled the 1948 American–Australian Scientific Expedition into a figure with unusual powers
Essays & reportage
John Howard’s masterful blunder
Graeme Dobell
29 May 2025
He achieved his goal, but Australia’s alliance-led march to Iraq lacked a vital ingredient
Essays & reportage
The ecological revolution
Tom Griffiths
20 May 2025
How a new moral consciousness began to stir in Australia
Essays & reportage
The incident at Skull Creek
Michael Dillon
7 May 2025
Sparked by dubious arrests based on mistaken information, Western Australia’s Laverton royal commission reverberates fifty years later
Essays & reportage
A tale told by a historian
Anne-Marie Condé
30 April 2025
How Kathleen Fitzpatrick began exercising her historical imagination
Books & arts
Books & arts
Millicent Preston Stanley’s vocation
Zachary Gorman
16 June 2025
The first woman elected to NSW parliament used any means possible — from petitions to theatrical melodrama — to advance her causes
Books & arts
Okay, you’re hired
Patrick Mullins
5 June 2025
A biographer’s apologia raises as many questions as it answers
Books & arts
What are we talking about when we talk about AI?
Campbell Wilson
5 June 2025
Applying the term to everything from dishwashers to medical breakthroughs masks both its benefits and its harms
Books & arts
The price of pleasure
Zora Simic
5 June 2025
A journalist explores the “sexual wellness industry”
Books & arts
Roads not travelled
Jane Goodall
4 June 2025
Two American drama series tip-toe around the country’s plight
International
International
Trump’s war on knowledge
Lesley Russell
4 June 2025
Like his erratic tariff decisions, Donald Trump’s attack on universities will damage America itself
International
Flag fall
Nic Maclellan
28 May 2025
From Australia to New Caledonia, symbols of Indigenous sovereignty are proving divisive in both predictable and unpredictable ways
International
Syria’s problem neighbour
Ross Burns
14 May 2025
The benefits of thawing relations between Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government and the West could be undone by Israeli interference
International
Glass half full in Washington
Michael Jacobs
27 April 2025
America played a less destructive role than feared at last week’s spring meetings of the World Bank and the IMF
International
Mark Carney’s slipstream campaign
Jonathan Malloy
21 April 2025
Canada’s Liberals enter the final week of the election campaign with plenty of help from south of the border
Other Voices
Other Voices
The flashing signals I saw in Israel
Thomas L. Friedman
30 May 2025
A broader antiwar movement is stirring
Other Voices
Is China the future?
Noah Smith
9 May 2025
What does it mean for China to be “the future”? And what does that future look like?
Other Voices
Donald Trump’s lose–lose tariffs
Noah Smith
16 April 2025
History shows tariffs are bad for rich economies — and Donald Trump’s decisions so far are actually reducing manufacturing investment
Other Voices
How do you like your news?
Joshua Benton
11 April 2025
A new study identifies which groups of readers prefer news sources that align with their own views
Other Voices
Franklin D. Roosevelt, free trader
John Ganz
7 April 2025
Donald Trump’s trade policies couldn’t be more different from FDR’s labour-friendly efforts to open up America to the world