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National affairs
Sowing doubt in Dutton’s Dickson
Karen Middleton
18 April 2025
Targeting the opposition leader’s seat serves more than one purpose for Labor
National affairs
The Coalition makes the case for negative gearing reform
Peter Mares
15 April 2025
Peter Dutton’s housing announcement exposes the inconsistency in the opposition’s thinking
Books & arts
All in the family
Tim Rowse
14 April 2025
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has built a political philosophy on her family’s efforts to reconcile the past and the future
Essays & reportage
Which are the polls to watch?
Murray Goot
14 April 2025
Does the national two-party vote tell us whether Labor will finish with the most MPs, or will it come down to 150 seat-by-seat swings?
Essays & reportage
Yet more truth-telling?
Dean Ashenden
11 April 2025
A Yes voter’s journey into her family’s past raises the question: what about those who voted No?
Essays & reportage
Nuclear Australia: an on-again, off-again history
Jessica Urwin
11 April 2025
Is Peter Dutton’s energy plan going the way of a succession of nuclear pushes?
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National affairs
National affairs
A small target has suddenly got bigger
Karen Middleton
11 April 2025
Attacking the government might have given the Coalition some easy wins over the past three years, but does it add up to an election strategy?
National affairs
Be careful what he wishes for
Peter Mares
11 April 2025
Slashing migration is much harder than it sounds
National affairs
Notes on a resurgence
Peter Brent
9 April 2025
Pollsters are giving Labor a winning edge, but the government has reasons to be cautious
National affairs
Peter Dutton’s challenge
Paul Rodan
8 April 2025
Is electoral history about to assert itself once again?
National affairs
Donald Trump and the ghost of Al Capone
Saul Eslake
6 April 2025
Australian exporters might well cope with a 10 per cent tariff, but a worldwide recession is another thing altogether
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
The fall of the myth of Singapore
Mark Baker
4 April 2025
A new book revives the debate about the behaviour of Australian troops in 1942
Essays & reportage
Lidia Thorpe, the UN Declaration and the mob out there
Tim Rowse
20 March 2025
Despite her weakness for hyperbole, the high-profile senator has proposed a simple way of bringing greater Indigenous scrutiny to parliament
Essays & reportage
Disruption (with Australian characteristics)
Brett Evans
7 March 2025
A credible teal threat to the Liberals in Sydney’s Bradfield raises the question: would minority government be so bad?
Essays & reportage
The trickle-down theory of schooling
Dean Ashenden
6 March 2025
An organisation set up to distribute academic research to teachers gets off on the wrong foot, and stays there
Essays & reportage
The unilateralist
Hamish McDonald
25 February 2025
Just a month into the Trump presidency, America’s allies are being forced to think the once-unthinkable
Books & arts
Books & arts
Unsettling portraits
Kate Fullagar & Michael A. McDonnell
17 April 2025
What can colonial portraits tell us about the past?
Books & arts
Shored against our ruins
Gordon Peake
10 April 2025
Robert Kaplan’s latest book is characteristically thoughtful and necessarily bleak
Books & arts
Small mercies
Philippa Hawker
10 April 2025
A new film rises to the challenge of adapting a heartbreaking Irish novella
Books & arts
The improvisers
John Edwards
8 April 2025
As Australia faces a crisis of orientation, an expatriate argues that being adaptable is better than being visionary
Books & arts
Inner worlds
Catherine Kevin
8 April 2025
What should we learn from the failings of the national domestic violence prevention strategy?
International
International
Two countries, two fiscal crises
Michael Gill
11 April 2025
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are responding to a similar problem in dramatically different ways
International
Oh, for the good old days?
Michael Barr
9 April 2025
A looming general election is highlighting the shortcomings of Singapore’s current generation of leaders
International
The influencer
Antonia Finnane
21 March 2025
The expulsion of social media’s “Yaya” has put a spotlight on the fine line between free speech and sedition in Taiwan
International
Out of the woodchipper
Michael Jacobs
13 March 2025
At least one of its rivals will be rubbing its hands at Washington’s retreat from foreign aid and international institutions
International
“I’m most useful in a crisis. I’m not that good in peacetime.”
Jonathan Malloy
11 March 2025
Can a former central banker use Donald Trump’s threats to pull off a shock win for Canada’s Liberals?
Other Voices
Other Voices
Donald Trump’s lose–lose tariffs
Noah Smith
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
How do you like your news?
Joshua Benton
11 April 2025
A new study identifies which groups of readers prefer news sources that align with their own views
Other Voices
Franklin D. Roosevelt, free trader
John Ganz
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
Other Voices
The reactionary right is not a monolith
Henry Farrell
1 April 2025
J.D. Vance is attempting to straddle two diametrically opposed tendencies on the radical right
Other Voices
Trust is a fragile plant
Fergus McIntosh
24 March 2025
The
New Yorker
’s chief fact-checker on how we squint to see more clearly