Books & arts
14 November 2025
Drusilla Modjeska’s questing account of modernist artist-women in twentieth-century Europe
National affairs
13 November 2025
Whatever the short-term advantages of dumping net zero, the Libs have also created electoral challenges for themselves
Books & arts
11 November 2025
Audacious African-American singer, dancer and actor Josephine Baker earned her place among France’s wartime greats
Books & arts
10 November 2025
Conservative activist William F. Buckley cajoled America along the road to the Reagan revolution
Essays & reportage
10 November 2025
The cartoonist’s dazzling artwork and salty wit combine to great effect
National affairs
National affairs
10 November 2025
Two breaches of parliamentary convention made possible the dismissal of Gough Whitlam’s government
National affairs
7 November 2025
Was the treasurer channelling Paul Keating at ANU this week?
National affairs
27 October 2025
The ambassador proves easy prey for hacks in the hunt for headlines
National affairs
23 October 2025
Labor is testing the arguments — and support — for more MPs and fixed four-year terms
National affairs
22 October 2025
Australia must be careful its rare-earth ambitions don’t force a choice between China and America
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
4 November 2025
Despite grappling with a double disadvantage, Margaret Walkom resolved to go her own way
Essays & reportage
28 October 2025
Old-timers still abound in the Pacific
Essays & reportage
15 October 2025
A visit to Australia helps unlock a mystery
Essays & reportage
15 September 2025
What does a ban on men’s shirts have to do with Papua New Guinea’s independence?
Essays & reportage
12 September 2025
It’s the country of many failures that hasn’t failed
Books & arts
Books & arts
10 November 2025
It’s not me, it’s you, our critic tells Lily Allen
Books & arts
9 November 2025
Three writers talk about what could and couldn’t be said at Erin Patterson’s murder trial
Books & arts
5 November 2025
The Travellers and Kangaroo reviewed
Books & arts
3 November 2025
Done properly, psychoanalysis doesn’t provide ready answers, says practitioner Stephen Grosz
Books & arts
31 October 2025
The curious afterlife of Samuel Pepys’s diary
International
International
9 November 2025
President Lula’s climate summit failed to defy Donald Trump in the way some had hoped, but COP30 has the chance to tackle two key challenges — if they can get on the agenda
International
7 November 2025
The meaning of Donald Trump’s pledge to restart nuclear testing still isn’t clear. But Vladimir Putin this week threatened “appropriate retaliatory steps”
International
6 November 2025
Is the US president coming round to a power-sharing arrangement with China, as long predicted by Australian strategist Hugh White?
International
29 October 2025
The US administration has intensified its efforts to turn back the sustainability tide
International
20 October 2025
The Nobel committee is working hard to encourage a broadening of economics
Other Voices
Other Voices
7 November 2025
If more evidence of Donald Trump’s electoral toxicity was needed, this week’s votes provided it
Other Voices
17 October 2025
AI model-makers predicted a sharp dropoff in jobs. So far, reality is refusing to oblige
Other Voices
10 October 2025
This feels like another tech-fuelled sharemarket bubble, but there’s one big difference
Other Voices
26 September 2025
The Chinese-owned video platform has become the largest source of news for Australians under twenty-five. Now Donald Trump wants it run in America by the Murdochs and other…
Other Voices
16 September 2025
The Biden White House might not have been setting up the vice-president for failure, but it didn’t do much to help her