International
7 October 2025
Have Rupert and Lachlan tied their own hands?
International
1 August 2025
Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal has brought to a head the media mogul’s uneasy relationship with Donald Trump
National affairs
3 April 2025
Do election campaigns matter? Fifty years of federal elections reveal a complex picture
International
4 March 2025
The Trump administration is going to extraordinary lengths to undermine the system’s capacity to check presidential actions
International
30 July 2024
With Rupert Murdoch trying to lock in his preferred heir, his family’s outsized voting power is coming under greater scrutiny
International
19 July 2024
Allegations of electoral fraud are providing cover for the Republicans’ intensifying attacks on electoral laws
International
15 May 2024
Fresh revelations suggest that the scandalous behaviour at London-based Murdoch newspapers was wider and deeper than previously believed
International
2 April 2024
Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump have had their ups and downs, but it’s mainly been down since 2020
International
9 February 2024
Will burgeoning cricket franchises kill the institutions they rely on?
Books & arts
10 November 2023
Biographer Michael Wolff is still carrying a torch for the disgraced former Fox News head Roger Ailes
Essays & reportage
7 March 2023
The Dominion Voting Systems legal suit against Fox News has already unearthed damning evidence from within the Murdoch-owned network
Books & arts
27 January 2023
The dire state of the Republican Party has decades-old roots
National affairs
2 November 2022
Once a key player in Rupert Murdoch’s Australian empire, Ken Cowley ended up on the outer
Essays & reportage
22 November 2021
The Packers maintained their wealth and power through almost four generations. Then things went wrong
Essays & reportage
31 August 2021
The former NSW premier’s time in office was dogged by allegations, but do they stand up?
National affairs
7 June 2021
So far, the prime minister’s religious views haven’t affected his popularity. But will that last?
Books & arts
21 May 2021
With populists emerging badly from the pandemic, public opinion could be shifting in favour of good government
From the archive
17 May 2021
Two leaks, two contrasting sequences of events — how Daniel Ellsberg and Chelsea Manning changed the course of history
National affairs
19 March 2021
Trigger-happy state opposition MPs seem set on repeating the mistakes of the past
International
3 November 2020
Our guide to the big three election-day questions
International
23 October 2020
The state of play, the states to watch, and how the count will unfold
International
5 October 2020
Donald Trump’s diagnosis doesn’t change the electoral fundamentals
National affairs
17 June 2020
Calls for universities to reduce their reliance on international students ignore the incentives created by successive governments
International
28 May 2020
Clear patterns are evident in the data we have on cases, mortality and testing
Essays & reportage
14 May 2020
Malcolm Turnbull spilled the beans on Kerry Packer’s secret plans for Fairfax back in 1991. So why are his memoirs so coy about this key episode?
Essays & reportage
19 March 2020
Vital reasons for the rise of Reuters, Australian Associated Press and other agencies haven’t gone away
Essays & reportage
12 March 2020
Culture warriors capitalised on political polarisation, and then pushed it further
International
24 February 2020
In key areas, America’s performance is slipping compared to its peers
National affairs
13 November 2019
Labor’s campaign review highlights how the party misjudged in the lead-up to the election
National affairs
4 October 2019
The prime minister’s style has proved effective so far, but does it contain the seeds of its own failure?