National affairs
19 February 2026
Economist Alan Manning shows why Angus Taylor is about to find out that immigration policy is hard
Books & arts
18 February 2026
Friedrich Hayek’s successors used an expanded armoury to fight their war against the state. But what explains their receptive audience?
Essays & reportage
18 February 2026
Terry Hughes and his team’s maps brought the threat to the Great Barrier Reef into sharp international focus
Books & arts
29 January 2026
“The smartest man in television” and “a bona fide genius” reveal much to worry shareholders about Rupert Murdoch’s forays into American television
Books & arts
28 January 2026
A historian goes in search of an unpopular relative
Books & arts
21 January 2026
When does human rights pressure work?
Books & arts
19 January 2026
Multiple Asias will have growing power but less unity
Books & arts
15 January 2026
How freedom lost its way
Books & arts
7 January 2026
Does the make-or-break gaokao stand up to close examination?
Books & arts
18 December 2025
Perhaps a little more than Sean Kelly concedes in his latest Quarterly Essay
Books & arts
18 December 2025
In his new book, Henry Reynolds turns Australian history on its head
Books & arts
18 December 2025
Social theorist Sarah Stein Lubrano says the “marketplace of ideas” doesn’t work. But is the alternative any more promising?
Books & arts
15 December 2025
Liberal democracy is being assailed by far-right populists and autocrats. Who’s coming to its rescue?
Books & arts
15 December 2025
Historian Shayne Breen goes deep into Tasmania’s past, and illuminates its present
Books & arts
8 December 2025
PIX magazine introduced photojournalism to a fast-changing mid-century society
Books & arts
5 December 2025
“In White, Beckett meets Groucho Marx — and both fuse in an Elizabethan tragedy,” says a passionate new defence of the Nobel Prize–winning writer
Books & arts
1 December 2025
Is democracy more likely to perish from within than at the hands of external enemies?
Books & arts
18 November 2025
You’d be unwise to bet on it
Books & arts
17 November 2025
Does the 1929 Wall Street crash hold a message for our times?
Books & arts
16 November 2025
Accusations that her grandmother was a communist spy or a fascist collaborator — or both — sent Lea Ypi back to Albania and into her own imagination
Books & arts
14 November 2025
Drusilla Modjeska’s questing account of modernist artist-women in twentieth-century Europe
From the archive
11 November 2025
Audacious African-American singer, dancer and actor Josephine Baker earned her place among France’s wartime greats
Books & arts
10 November 2025
Conservative activist William F. Buckley cajoled America along the road to the Reagan revolution
Essays & reportage
10 November 2025
The cartoonist’s dazzling artwork and salty wit combine to great effect
Books & arts
9 November 2025
Three writers talk about what could and couldn’t be said at Erin Patterson’s murder trial
Books & arts
3 November 2025
Done properly, psychoanalysis doesn’t provide ready answers, says practitioner Stephen Grosz
Books & arts
31 October 2025
The curious afterlife of Samuel Pepys’s diary
Books & arts
30 October 2025
Political dejection creates disengaged citizens, says a new synthesis of psychology, sociology and political science
Books & arts
29 October 2025
Southeast Asia has moved to the centre of China–US rivalry
Books & arts
29 October 2025
Uwe Wittstock’s Marseille 1940 is a marvel of narrative art