National Affairs
23 July 2021
On climate, Barnaby Joyce is a speed bump about to be run over by a monster truck
International
22 July 2021
We haven’t heard the last of Pegasus, the authoritarian government’s friend
National Affairs
21 July 2021
Political authority is a precious commodity. Use it or lose it
Essays & Reportage
20 July 2021
The debate about Dark Emu is trapped in a centuries-old European worldview, says the author of The Biggest Estate on Earth
National Affairs
16 July 2021
No longer “crazy universities,” newsrooms are slowly adapting to a more challenging environment
National Affairs
National Affairs
22 July 2021
Submissions to the Victorian royal commission add to a powerful case against the once-burgeoning company
National Affairs
20 July 2021
Despite the popularly held belief, there is no evidence that immigration reduces wages in Australia
National Affairs
16 July 2021
Electoral bribery is expensive, wasteful and probably ineffective. And why is Canberra funding car parks anyway?
National Affairs
15 July 2021
Fear campaigns might suit government, but HIV/AIDS showed us what really works
National Affairs
13 July 2021
We only find out what kind of PM a politician makes once they’re in office. But who’s most likely to get there?
Essays & Reportage
Essays & Reportage
16 July 2021
Based in a nondescript office in inner Sydney in 2016–17, a secret team set about saving the publisher’s newspapers
Essays & Reportage
9 July 2021
A journalist returns again and again to Pakistan’s largest city
Essays & Reportage
5 July 2021
How skilfully has the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald’s new pollster gauged opinion on quarantine, cutting emissions, and China?
Essays & Reportage
30 June 2021
When communist delegates met secretly in Shanghai in July 1921, their individual fates — as well as their party’s — were impossible to foresee
Essays & Reportage
11 June 2021
Aboriginal people in the town famously visited by the Freedom Ride are taking an innovative approach to their community’s problems
Books & Arts
Books & Arts
25 July 2021
Why did French culture matter not only to French migrants but also to colonial Australians?
Books & Arts
16 July 2021
Anthropologist Nicholas Thomas is a skilled and knowledgeable guide to Pacific voyaging
Books & Arts
15 July 2021
For singer-songwriter Martha Marlow, “your life experiences become your palette”
Books & Arts
13 July 2021
Rules or no rules? The Tech Giants have made some of their own.
Books & Arts
12 July 2021
Even the Romans used jokes to drive home their point, though they tend to lose something in the translation
International
International
21 July 2021
The French president won’t be able to avoid the legacies of nuclear testing when he visits Tahiti this week
International
16 July 2021
Australia is still making up its mind how to respond to the coup in Myanmar
International
3 July 2021
The Left Party’s support for a motion from the far right has brought Sweden’s political divisions to a head
International
1 July 2021
In a bid to end the constitutional crisis, Samoa’s Supreme Court has ruled that parliament must meet by 5 July
International
15 June 2021
France’s unilateral decision to bring forward a third independence vote might end in tears
Correspondents
Correspondents
24 May 2021
A strategy exists to revive UK Labour’s electoral fortunes, but would it work?
Correspondents
7 May 2021
The centenary of the birth of Sophie Scholl, the Munich student executed in 1943, prompts reflections on the legacy of Germany’s anti-Nazi resistance
Correspondents
20 April 2021
A Jew in Nazi Germany, a communist in Robert Menzies’s Australia, an Australian in East Germany — the remarkable life of Walter Kaufmann
Correspondents
13 April 2021
Our correspondent detects parallels between the fortunes of German football and the travails of the Merkel government
Correspondents
28 March 2021
What two men tell us about the evolution of German right-wing populism