Retrospective
13 March 2026
Five years later, does the future of Australian universities in the post-Covid era look any rosier?
Retrospective
13 July 2025
What really happened when boffins gathered in Canberra in 1939?
Retrospective
13 June 2020
In The Beach, filmmaker Warwick Thornton turned the camera on himself
Books & arts
20 March 2026
A new account of Australia’s brutal first world war occupation of German New Guinea
Other Voices
14 March 2026
America and Israel might have bitten off more than they can chew
National affairs
National affairs
4 March 2026
What’s really driving the assault on Iran, and what does it mean for America’s allies?
National affairs
23 February 2026
The latest surveys are challenging our understanding of the swinging vote
National affairs
19 February 2026
Economist Alan Manning shows why Angus Taylor is about to find out that immigration policy is hard
National affairs
13 February 2026
It’s possible, but will that impress the rest of the electorate?
National affairs
30 January 2026
Polls and international experience complicate the conventional wisdom
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
18 February 2026
Just as our correspondent was wishing she had chosen a different edition of the Hobart Mercury, her eyes fell on page nine
Essays & reportage
18 February 2026
Terry Hughes and his team’s maps brought the threat to the Great Barrier Reef into sharp international focus
Essays & reportage
13 February 2026
How teacher education went off the rails
Essays & reportage
5 February 2026
Temporary labour migration can benefit Australian employers and Pacific families, but it’s not without risks for visiting workers
Essays & reportage
5 January 2026
The Kazakh president thought he’d been palmed off with second-rate visitors, but the vice-regal Australians eventually got under his guard
Books & arts
Books & arts
11 March 2026
Two novelists fill in some of the gaps
Books & arts
11 March 2026
Romantic love gets all the headlines, says writer Andrew O’Hagan, but just as often it is friendship that describes the shape of our lives
Books & arts
11 March 2026
A thought-provoking (and entertaining) new book about revolutions doesn’t answer a question that has had our reviewer puzzled
Books & arts
7 March 2026
The future “queen of muckraking” fled the rigid class system of her home country for a high-profile career in investigative journalism
Books & arts
6 March 2026
A sixteen-year prime ministership leaves more than a few traces
International
International
3 March 2026
Sanae Takaichi smashed Japan’s election. Now comes the harder part
International
3 March 2026
One technique for sequestering carbon is firming up as a possible winner
International
10 February 2026
The White House’s efforts to suppress the Democratic vote are having little success
International
6 February 2026
A new report documents France’s abuses of human rights during 2024’s unrest in the Pacific territory
International
4 February 2026
The high-profile banker turned prime minister is following through on his strategy of resistance
Other Voices
Other Voices
22 January 2026
Except for the damage, nothing Trump is doing will last
Other Voices
21 January 2026
Much can be learnt from how Wikipedia constructs shared knowledge about what’s happening in the world right now
Other Voices
17 December 2025
A vast country can be seen in different but not necessarily contradictory ways
Other Voices
6 December 2025
Why the Republicans are in serious trouble
Other Voices
17 November 2025
They’re working hard for someone else’s benefit