Books & arts
15 October 2025
Three new books explore the labour movement’s evolution
Essays & reportage
2 July 2025
Historian John Hirst founded a career on a distinctive view of colonial Australian politics
National affairs
4 May 2025
The party is taking a long time to understand its plight
Books & arts
11 March 2025
New, modern and international, the Blue Poles purchase helped open up the world to Australia
Books & arts
5 December 2024
The former British PM’s highly readable memoir is just a little too tidy
Essays & reportage
19 November 2024
How have Australians remembered politics?
Essays & reportage
6 August 2024
Following a heated double-dissolution election, both houses met jointly for the first time ever on 6–7 August 1974
National affairs
27 January 2024
How the government can build on what’s been a good month
From the archive
15 August 2023
How did Australia’s thirty-first PM make it to the Lodge?
Books & arts
4 August 2023
A compelling biography captures the trajectory of the man who named the lucky country
National affairs
13 September 2022
Elizabeth II leaves a mixed legacy in Australia — and not just for republicans
Essays & reportage
1 December 2021
Stuart Macintyre, 1947–2021
Essays & reportage
24 September 2021
John Elliott — who died this week — in many ways personified the business excesses of Australia’s 1980s
Books & arts
3 September 2021
The Newsreader shows an industry, and a country, on the cusp of change
Books & arts
7 August 2021
How a distinguished educator fell victim to church politics and personal enmities
National affairs
9 July 2021
The federal government’s handling of vaccinations shows how much damage has been done to the public sector
National affairs
12 June 2021
Buying the Sydney Swans bolstered the swashbuckling 1980s image of medical entrepreneur Geoffrey Edelsten, who died this week
From the archive
4 June 2021
The pandemic has exposed longstanding problems in Australian universities. But it’s possible to map a way out
National affairs
7 May 2021
Inadequate funding doesn’t explain all the problems at the National Archives
Books & arts
16 April 2021
A new book that attempts to understand the prime minister runs into its own problems
National affairs
4 March 2021
Scandals on Capital Hill point to problems in schools, universities and parliament itself
National affairs
26 January 2021
The case for changes to Australia’s honours system has become overwhelming
Books & arts
30 September 2020
Books | The second volume of Dunera Lives profiles eighteen of the “Dunera boys,” each remarkable in his own way
Essays & reportage
29 July 2020
How one family negotiated identities between different Italies
Books & arts
20 July 2020
Books | Christopher Pyne’s memoir reveals more than he might have intended about the state of Australian politics
National affairs
27 May 2020
Whatever Scott Morrison has in mind, it doesn’t sound a lot like the 1980s Labor–union agreement
Essays & reportage
6 May 2020
What can previous crises tell us about the prospects for progressive reform after Covid-19?
Books & arts
26 April 2020
Books | Energy, ambition, bravado and intellect — so what went wrong for Malcolm Turnbull?
National affairs
3 January 2020
The prime minister’s political authority has fallen away more quickly than anyone could have imagined
Books & arts
10 November 2019
Books | An outsider’s view of the Labor Party’s problems calls for “a paradoxical politics”