International
5 December 2025
Change at the top is coming, but a long malaise needs a truer reckoning.
Books & arts
5 December 2025
“In White, Beckett meets Groucho Marx — and both fuse in an Elizabethan tragedy,” says a passionate new defence of the Nobel Prize–winning writer
National affairs
2 December 2025
A muddled year in the region for Labor ends with the Pacific affairs minister disagreeing with his own government
National affairs
28 November 2025
With Indonesia expected to be among the world’s five biggest economies by 2050, the government is finding new ways to lift trade and investment
Books & arts
16 November 2025
Accusations that her grandmother was a communist spy or a fascist collaborator — or both — sent Lea Ypi back to Albania and into her own imagination
National affairs
National affairs
13 November 2025
Whatever the short-term advantages of dumping net zero, the Libs have also created electoral challenges for themselves
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
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
28 November 2025
Fifty years later, what impact has the Dismissal had on Australian democracy?
Essays & reportage
10 November 2025
The cartoonist’s dazzling artwork and salty wit combine to great effect
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
Books & arts
Books & arts
5 December 2025
Sovereign is a nuanced portrayal of sovereign-citizen beliefs
Books & arts
1 December 2025
Is democracy more likely to perish from within than at the hands of external enemies?
Books & arts
30 November 2025
On the death of the playwright this weekend, a brief memory
Books & arts
18 November 2025
You’d be unwise to bet on it
Books & arts
17 November 2025
Does the 1929 Wall Street crash hold a message for our times?
International
International
2 December 2025
COP30’s shortcomings create a vital opportunity to reshape the UN climate talks
International
23 November 2025
The latest UN climate summit was buffeted by geopolitical headwinds
International
21 November 2025
Rose Byrne gives a devastating, compulsively watchable performance as a woman on the edge
International
20 November 2025
Trump’s America looks even stranger close up
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
Other Voices
Other Voices
17 November 2025
They’re working hard for someone else’s benefit
Other Voices
14 November 2025
It’s about elite impunity, the defining issue in America for more than two decades
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