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7 May 2025
A big election win gives Labor a chance to rethink this Morrison-era scheme
Essays & reportage
7 May 2025
Sparked by dubious arrests based on mistaken information, Western Australia’s Laverton royal commission reverberates fifty years later
National affairs
5 May 2025
The signs were there but the size of the swings still came as a shock
National affairs
5 May 2025
The pollsters tipped the win but not its size. So why did they toe the same line?
National affairs
4 May 2025
The party is taking a long time to understand its plight
Books & arts
2 May 2025
A deep dive into the archives of controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl has some startling moments
National affairs
National affairs
9 May 2025
Despite a remarkable win, caution will remain the watchword of the Albanese prime ministership
National affairs
9 May 2025
What could an incoming education minister do about schools?
National affairs
3 May 2025
With the final polls published, what do we and don’t we know?
National affairs
2 May 2025
A misconceived election strategy’s long history
National affairs
1 May 2025
Beware of claims that supporters of small right-wing parties will overwhelmingly preference the Coalition
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
30 April 2025
How Kathleen Fitzpatrick began exercising her historical imagination
Essays & reportage
24 April 2025
Sidney Nolan’s remarkable Gallipoli series brought together disparate strands of the artist’s life
Essays & reportage
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
11 April 2025
A Yes voter’s journey into her family’s past raises the question: what about those who voted No?
Essays & reportage
11 April 2025
Is Peter Dutton’s energy plan going the way of a succession of nuclear pushes?
Books & arts
Books & arts
29 April 2025
Time has transformed photographs of largely unknown people into representatives of an era
Books & arts
29 April 2025
A sociologist’s dissection of hyperglobalisation and its legacies
Books & arts
25 April 2025
Sport and gambling are becoming dangerously intertwined on both sides of the Pacific
Books & arts
24 April 2025
A new biography of Beatrice Faust illuminates a distinct strand of Australian feminism
Books & arts
17 April 2025
What can colonial portraits tell us about the past?
International
International
27 April 2025
America played a less destructive role than feared at last week’s spring meetings of the World Bank and the IMF
International
21 April 2025
Canada’s Liberals enter the final week of the election campaign with plenty of help from south of the border
International
11 April 2025
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are responding to a similar problem in dramatically different ways
International
9 April 2025
A looming general election is highlighting the shortcomings of Singapore’s current generation of leaders
International
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
Other Voices
Other Voices
9 May 2025
What does it mean for China to be “the future”? And what does that future look like?
Other Voices
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
11 April 2025
A new study identifies which groups of readers prefer news sources that align with their own views
Other Voices
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
1 April 2025
J.D. Vance is attempting to straddle two diametrically opposed tendencies on the radical right