Books & arts
13 June 2025
It was writing that “separated me from everything,” says German writer Judith Hermann in a captivating collection of biographical essays
Books & arts
13 June 2025
What “Scarborough Fair” tells us about popular music-making
Books & arts
12 June 2025
Can democracy respond effectively when the future is breathing down our necks?
Books & arts
12 June 2025
Celebrated American author Michael Lewis brings together an emblematic group of public servants
Other Voices
12 June 2025
Behind the sadism lies an attack on democracy
National affairs
National affairs
10 June 2025
A government falls in Tasmania as debate redoubles over a costly AFL-imposed stadium
National affairs
6 June 2025
The looming hearing recalls cold war battles and a more recent courtroom defeat
National affairs
4 June 2025
The final election count adds up to a remarkable win for Labor, but history offers warnings
National affairs
3 June 2025
Growing wealth inequality is setting Australia up for conflict, but solutions aren’t out of reach
National affairs
2 June 2025
Clare O’Neil has gained extra ministerial clout, and that could be good news for housing policy and programs
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
5 June 2025
How an Arnhem Land community distilled the 1948 American–Australian Scientific Expedition into a figure with unusual powers
Essays & reportage
29 May 2025
He achieved his goal, but Australia’s alliance-led march to Iraq lacked a vital ingredient
Essays & reportage
20 May 2025
How a new moral consciousness began to stir in Australia
Essays & reportage
7 May 2025
Sparked by dubious arrests based on mistaken information, Western Australia’s Laverton royal commission reverberates fifty years later
Essays & reportage
30 April 2025
How Kathleen Fitzpatrick began exercising her historical imagination
Books & arts
Books & arts
16 June 2025
The first woman elected to NSW parliament used any means possible — from petitions to theatrical melodrama — to advance her causes
Books & arts
5 June 2025
A biographer’s apologia raises as many questions as it answers
Books & arts
5 June 2025
Applying the term to everything from dishwashers to medical breakthroughs masks both its benefits and its harms
Books & arts
5 June 2025
A journalist explores the “sexual wellness industry”
Books & arts
4 June 2025
Two American drama series tip-toe around the country’s plight
International
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
International
21 April 2025
Canada’s Liberals enter the final week of the election campaign with plenty of help from south of the border
Other Voices
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
Other Voices
7 April 2025
Donald Trump’s trade policies couldn’t be more different from FDR’s labour-friendly efforts to open up America to the world