National affairs
4 July 2025
An auspiciously timed amendment to departmental responsibilities highlights a long delay in federal electronic-surveillance reforms
Books & arts
3 July 2025
The tech giant helped turn its biggest partner into a world leader in electronics manufacturing
International
3 July 2025
Britain has leapfrogged Australia with strong rules for proposed fossil fuel projects
Books & arts
3 July 2025
Is the act of composition itself a performance?
Books & arts
1 July 2025
A sharp, grim, exhilarating novel engages with the real-life story of a filmmaker’s return to Nazi Germany
National affairs
National affairs
30 June 2025
Nostalgia-fuelled panic about declining populations doesn’t match plausible forecasts
National affairs
30 June 2025
New shadow minister Kerrynne Liddle believes the rights of the vulnerable should take precedence over Indigenous rights
National affairs
27 June 2025
A leaked transcript of a Liberal Women’s Council meeting highlights the challenges facing Sussan Ley over women’s representation
National affairs
23 June 2025
How Australia viewed the weekend bombing
National affairs
20 June 2025
Jim Chalmers wants to “test the appetite” for more ambitious productivity reforms
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
2 July 2025
Historian John Hirst founded a career on a distinctive view of colonial Australian politics
Essays & reportage
25 June 2025
A former leader’s trajectory is also the story of the Liberal Party’s narrowing base
Essays & reportage
24 June 2025
Australian solutions to renewable energy’s teething problems are attracting international interest
Essays & reportage
17 June 2025
Commemorating the German Peasants’ War and an early charter of human rights
Essays & reportage
5 June 2025
How an Arnhem Land community distilled the 1948 American–Australian Scientific Expedition into a figure with unusual powers
Books & arts
Books & arts
4 July 2025
Dictators don’t govern alone, which helps explain what happens once they’ve gone
Books & arts
4 July 2025
As Labor signals greater boldness, a seasoned policymaker and former MP describes how it’s done
Books & arts
30 June 2025
A new book explores the culture of philately
Books & arts
27 June 2025
An award-winning memoir honours cultures old and new
Books & arts
27 June 2025
Gail Jones’s latest novel echoes the preoccupations of much of her writing
International
International
29 June 2025
Keir Starmer is paying a heavy price for spending cuts that lacked a defensible rationale
International
4 June 2025
Like his erratic tariff decisions, Donald Trump’s attack on universities will damage America itself
International
28 May 2025
From Australia to New Caledonia, symbols of Indigenous sovereignty are proving divisive in both predictable and unpredictable ways
International
14 May 2025
The benefits of thawing relations between Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government and the West could be undone by Israeli interference
International
27 April 2025
America played a less destructive role than feared at last week’s spring meetings of the World Bank and the IMF
Other Voices
Other Voices
12 June 2025
Behind the sadism lies an attack on democracy
Other Voices
30 May 2025
A broader antiwar movement is stirring
Other Voices
9 May 2025
What does it mean for China to be “the future”? And what does that future look like?
Other Voices
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
11 April 2025
A new study identifies which groups of readers prefer news sources that align with their own views