Essays & reportage
24 March 2025
The New Yorker’s chief fact-checker on how we squint to see more clearly
Essays & reportage
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
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
6 March 2025
An organisation set up to distribute academic research to teachers gets off on the wrong foot, and stays there
Essays & reportage
25 February 2025
Just a month into the Trump presidency, America’s allies are being forced to think the once-unthinkable
Essays & reportage
24 February 2025
Is The Brutalist’s most important character absent from the screen?
Essays & reportage
11 February 2025
Coming across a “perfect moment” in literary Tangier
Essays & reportage
28 January 2025
Future MP Race Mathews had an insider’s view of policy development — not least health policy — in the office of the leader of the opposition
Essays & reportage
23 December 2024
Whatever happened to the communal enjoyment of poetry?
Essays & reportage
18 December 2024
Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons
Essays & reportage
10 December 2024
A taken-for-granted is being questioned at last, with implications in education and elsewhere
Essays & reportage
6 December 2024
Great Australians brought freshly researched history by fine writers and historians to a generation of Australians
Essays & reportage
6 December 2024
A centennial re-watching of the cinema of ice
Essays & reportage
29 November 2024
Outsiders promoting political liberalisation in an impatient or immodest spirit shouldn’t be surprised by a backlash
Essays & reportage
29 November 2024
How the battle for a National Film and Sound Archive came to a head
Essays & reportage
22 November 2024
Photographer Max Dupain returned from the war determined to reinvent himself and his work
Essays & reportage
22 November 2024
A judicial inquiry has been told of withheld evidence that would have fundamentally challenged the case against the Croatian Six
Essays & reportage
19 November 2024
How have Australians remembered politics?
Essays & reportage
6 November 2024
Targeted by hackers and sued by publishers, the Internet Archive continues to push boundaries
Essays & reportage
21 October 2024
Can the “brainy and agile” Penny Wong counter the power of US-centric defence and security agencies?
Essays & reportage
17 October 2024
What the record reveals about the future prime minister and the ornamental pond
Essays & reportage
10 October 2024
As the first anniversary of the Voice vote approaches, should we be thinking differently about truth-telling?
Essays & reportage
25 September 2024
Once a symbol of greatness, the city’s uneven decline mirrors the national malaise
Essays & reportage
14 September 2024
Our correspondent reacquaints himself with the PNG capital, a place getting a lot more attention these days
Essays & reportage
13 September 2024
What the International Court of Justice says about Israel’s treatment of the occupied territories and what it means for Australia
Essays & reportage
3 September 2024
The puzzle of Anthony Albanese’s struggling prime ministership
Essays & reportage
16 August 2024
Historian Judith Allen challenged the way historians do their work
Essays & reportage
8 August 2024
The military hierarchy took a dim view of aircrew traumatised by their experiences over Nazi Germany
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
Essays & reportage
5 August 2024
Gough Whitlam’s 1974 gamble on a double dissolution election paid off for key legislation