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Big deal in Dubai
Michael Jacobs
1 December 2023
UAE deal-maker Ahmed Al Jaber has kicked off this year’s climate talks with a historic coup
Essays & Reportage
A rainy day in Hobart
Anne-Marie Condé
1 December 2023
Where did all that water go?
From the archive
Kissinger and his critics
Barbara Keys
1 December 2023
How does the former secretary of state feel about being called a war criminal?
Books & Arts
Minnesota nice
Jane Goodall
1 December 2023
Fargo continues to turn expectations upside down
National Affairs
And that’s housing
Peter Mares
30 November 2023
Alan Kohler meets the ghost of Bob Menzies in the latest
Quarterly Essay
National Affairs
Peter Dutton’s momentum
Peter Brent
30 November 2023
With the next election still at least a year away, is the Coalition on the right kind of roll?
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National Affairs
National Affairs
Judging Kathleen Folbigg
Jeremy Gans
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
Tax reform is hard, but not impossible
Danielle Wood
7 November 2023
The outgoing Grattan Institute chief executive strikes an optimistic note in this year’s Freebairn Lecture
National Affairs
Getting the referendum wrong
Peter Brent
6 November 2023
Railing against the elites, the
Australian
’s editor-at-large has missed real messages in the Voice vote
National Affairs
The dental divide
Lesley Russell
30 October 2023
Australian health policy doesn’t treat it that way, but dental care is a medical issue
National Affairs
Imelda Marcos’s videotapes
Mark Baker
24 October 2023
… and other encounters with Bill Hayden, foreign minister 1983–88
Essays & Reportage
Essays & Reportage
The world after John Curtin
Tom Griffiths
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
The Lebers, a family of ratbags
Seumas Spark
23 November 2023
Shaped by history, Sylvie Leber and her forebears have campaigned for social change
Essays & Reportage
Medicare’s forty-year update
Mike Steketee
1 November 2023
The federal government’s plans are receiving cautious support in unexpected quarters
Essays & Reportage
Climate’s quiet achiever
Akshat Rathi
20 October 2023
When the history of electric vehicles is written, who will be seen as central?
Essays & Reportage
Two worlds
Louise K. Hansen
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
A kind of autobiography
Sylvia Martin
29 November 2023
A novelist’s correspondence gives rare insights into his life and work
Books & Arts
The old hack who could
Nick Haslam
29 November 2023
A defence of Joe Biden’s record highlights a deeper problem
Books & Arts
Writing the history of the present
Mark Edele
21 November 2023
Russia’s war against Ukraine is generating a rich historiography
Books & Arts
Stolen moments
Linda Jaivin
21 November 2023
Caught between their home villages and the city, a generation of Chinese migrant workers struggles for intimacy
Books & Arts
The biographer’s last word
Patrick Mullins
20 November 2023
Adam Sisman lifts the curtain on his dealings with John le Carré
International
International
The day after
Tony Walker
17 November 2023
What might a postwar scenario look like in Israel and Palestine?
International
Neither Democrats nor democrats
Lesley Russell
7 November 2023
The Republican Party might not be American democracy’s only enemy, but it’s the biggest
International
How Israel’s deterrence policy came undone
Lawrence Freedman
1 November 2023
And what it means for Gaza’s future
International
Scaling the Great Wall
Mark Baker
30 October 2023
Anthony Albanese’s visit to China late this week comes almost exactly fifty years after Gough Whitlam’s pioneering trip
International
Flying too close to the son?
Liam Gammon
27 October 2023
Despite potential pitfalls, the Indonesian president seems set on creating a new political dynasty
Correspondents
Correspondents
Taiwan’s cat warrior to the rescue?
Antonia Finnane
24 November 2023
Hsiao Bi-khim’s impressive record might help save Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party from electoral defeat
Correspondents
Rolling with the waves
Hamish McDonald
24 November 2023
The Solomon Islands prime minister has played off China and the West remarkably well
Correspondents
Preserving nuclear memories
Nic Maclellan
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
Rodrigo Duterte’s legacy
Margaret Simons
1 November 2023
Continued killings suggest that the violence unleashed by the former Philippines president has become endemic
Correspondents
Taiwan’s double jeopardy
Antonia Finnane
12 October 2023
In Taipei, National Day tests the temperature of nationalist sentiment