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Zealots of the reading room
Anne-Marie Condé
6 December 2024
Great Australians
brought freshly researched history by fine writers and historians to a generation of Australians
Essays & reportage
The flickering cryosphere
Alessandro Antonello
6 December 2024
A centennial re-watching of the cinema of ice
Correspondents
You can’t negotiate on an empty stomach
Nic Maclellan
6 December 2024
A government collapses in Paris, and the shockwaves extend as far as Nouméa
Books & arts
Boris levels up
Joshua Black and Frank Bongiorno
5 December 2024
The former British PM’s highly readable memoir is just a little too tidy
Books & arts
Resisting resolution
Sara Dowse
3 December 2024
A novelist reflects on “exile as agony but also as ethical position”
Books & arts
Forgotten war
Bernard Wasserstein
2 December 2024
Strategies and the battlefield take centre-stage in an often gripping history of the First World War’s eastern front
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National affairs
National affairs
Who belongs in the Senate?
William Maley
6 December 2024
Pauline Hanson is wrong and Fatima Payman right about the question of eligibility
National affairs
Is that a fact?
Peter Browne
29 November 2024
Do partisan voters really inhabit separate realities?
National affairs
At last, Labor’s campaign finance bill
Graeme Orr
19 November 2024
Big parties versus the rest? Our assessment of the government’s plans
National affairs
“What do you have to do to get the VC?”
Mark Baker
12 November 2024
Fifty-six years later, a soldier finally receives his Victoria Cross. Was it all a matter of timing?
National affairs
It’s no time to lose our heads
Paul Strangio
8 November 2024
What lessons should Labor take away from the Democratic Party’s defeat?
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
What the West forgot about democracy
Erica Benner
29 November 2024
Outsiders promoting political liberalisation in an impatient or immodest spirit shouldn’t be surprised by a backlash
Essays & reportage
Barry Cohen’s “mistake” turns forty
Ray Edmondson
29 November 2024
How the battle for a National Film and Sound Archive came to a head
Essays & reportage
The phoenix
Helen Ennis
22 November 2024
Photographer Max Dupain returned from the war determined to reinvent himself and his work
Essays & reportage
Is this our biggest miscarriage of justice?
Hamish McDonald
22 November 2024
A judicial inquiry has been told of withheld evidence that would have fundamentally challenged the case against the Croatian Six
Essays & reportage
Making their political mark
Frank Bongiorno
19 November 2024
How have Australians remembered politics?
Books & arts
Books & arts
After the factory girls
Antonia Finnane
25 November 2024
Yuan Yang profiles a new generation of Chinese women
Books & arts
Jury #2
Jeremy Gans
25 November 2024
SBS’s
The Jury: Death on the Staircase
goes further than most courtroom experiments, and the results are all the more interesting
Books & arts
What have the Romans done for us?
Ken Haley
24 November 2024
A new history of the original superpower
Books & arts
Bark diplomacy
Marian Quartly
22 November 2024
Could the Yirrkala Petitions best be understood as an attempt at communication between nations?
Books & arts
Clean plotting
Jane Goodall
22 November 2024
The Day of the Jackal
and
The Diplomat
reviewed
International
International
Labor goes one way, Israel the other
Tony Walker
6 December 2024
Australia’s vote on Gaza this week highlights a decades-long shift in the major parties’ attitudes towards Israel
International
One country, one system
Mark Baker
22 November 2024
Once again Britain stands by while China breaches the two countries’ agreement on Hong Kong
International
Not only did Harris lose, but…
Peter Brent
18 November 2024
With the results near-final, what do we now know about the shifting preferences of American voters?
International
Testing time for America’s pollsters
Peter Brent
5 November 2024
After two presidential misfires in a row, the polls are under intense scrutiny ahead of tomorrow’s vote
International
Beijing’s brake
Saul Eslake
24 October 2024
All signs suggest that China is in the grip of a long, self-induced economic slowdown
Correspondents
Correspondents
The Keir Starmer conundrum
David Hayes
25 November 2024
British Labour’s early missteps are sullying its promise of renewal. The prime minister, unmoved, is reaching for the stars
Correspondents
Neither triumph nor Trumped
Michael Jacobs
25 November 2024
Another cliffhanger climate conference achieves a kind of progress
Correspondents
Who governs the climate?
Michael Jacobs
21 November 2024
While COP29 meets in Baku G20 leaders have been making their own decisions in Rio
Correspondents
“Better a bad deal than a good civil war”
Nic Maclellan
15 November 2024
France has delayed elections in New Caledonia to enable negotiations on a new political statute. But what happens if a deal can’t be struck?
Correspondents
A shift in the climate for COP29
Michael Jacobs
10 November 2024
As the UN conference opens in Baku, Azerbaijan, what difference will Donald Trump’s election make?