Books & arts
12 June 2025
Can democracy respond effectively when the future is breathing down our necks?
Books & arts
26 May 2025
The former Labor PM’s battle with the banks still matters — for both sides of politics
Books & arts
3 January 2024
The dangerous appeal of absolute rulers
Books & arts
6 December 2023
The Archibalds win a convert on the NSW south coast
Books & arts
9 August 2023
Two talented Liberal senators paved the way for future female ministers
Books & arts
1 February 2023
For a remarkable quarter-century, Tony Eggleton was the power behind the Liberal throne
Books & arts
22 October 2021
Celebrity classicist Mary Beard turns sleuth in an entertaining account of the long afterlife of twelve emperors
Books & arts
24 May 2021
Weapons inspector Rod Barton assigns to the CIA a large share of the blame for the invasion of Iraq
Books & arts
31 August 2020
Books | Must the best-laid plans fall victim to bad implementation?
Books & arts
2 March 2020
Books | Has Geoffrey Robertson made a persuasive case for returning heritage objects?
Essays & reportage
29 July 2019
A former colleague pays tribute to renowned Labor speechwriter Graham Freudenberg
National affairs
18 February 2019
Is Labor’s election mobilisation hitting its limits?
Books & arts
8 November 2018
Books | Teamed up with Mark Latham, Pauline Hanson seems set to again follow the trajectory documented by Kerry-Anne Walsh
From the archive
12 October 2018
Like Martin Luther King, philosopher Martha Nussbaum wants to take the anger out of democracy
National affairs
23 March 2018
One week, two political campaign scandals: Cambridge Analytica’s data-harvesting and Labor’s funding scam in Victoria highlight the temptations facing parties desperate to win…
Books & arts
15 September 2015
Theatre | A new production of Aeschylus’ Oresteia has urgent contemporary relevance, writes Stephen Mills in London
From the archive
20 May 2015
Michael Cooney’s account of his years as prime ministerial speechwriter helps explain what went wrong
National affairs
5 December 2014
Labor’s campaigning in Victoria had a lineage stretching back to community activist Saul Alinsky via Barack Obama, writes Stephen Mills
National affairs
19 September 2014
Private secretary, chief of staff, enforcer? Stephen Mills looks at the role of the prime minister’s most influential gatekeeper
From the archive
21 July 2014
Cyril Wyndham, the energetic, reformist outsider, changed forever the way Labor organised itself federally. And then he paid the price
Books & arts
4 June 2014
Paralysed leader or bad advice? Stephen Mills reviews a new account of the Rudd–Gillard government and what it says about the party’s future
Books & arts
28 November 2013
How did an unelected campaign consultant come to exercise such influence over Labor’s 2013 campaign, asks Stephen Mills
Essays & reportage
20 August 2013
Has Labor’s campaign taken a fatal turn? History shows that divided control of campaign messages can be a disaster, writes Stephen Mills
Essays & reportage
29 November 2012
Not only was the 1972 election a watershed for Labor, it also created the modern political campaign
From the archive
25 July 2012
The Liberals’ innovative 1949 election campaign offered voters an alternative worldview