National affairs
14 March 2025
Peter Dutton should take the time to read his predecessor’s least-remembered thoughts about immigration policy
Books & arts
11 March 2025
New, modern and international, the Blue Poles purchase helped open up the world to Australia
Books & arts
7 March 2025
How did Joan Lindsay come to write Picnic at Hanging Rock?
Books & arts
4 March 2025
Robert Manne tracks almost half a century of political and cultural flux through an intensely personal lens
Books & arts
27 February 2025
A dual biography probes the underbelly of nineteenth-century Melbourne
Books & arts
14 February 2025
Much good luck and a degree of good management enabled the long-serving prime minister to ride the postwar boom
Books & arts
7 February 2025
A new history of Australia’s postwar welfare system provides plenty of lessons for a better future
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
Books & arts
9 December 2024
How will competition and cooperation between Russia and China in Central Asia affect the global balance of power?
Essays & reportage
6 December 2024
Great Australians brought freshly researched history by fine writers and historians to a generation of Australians
International
6 December 2024
Australia’s vote on Gaza this week highlights a decades-long shift in the major parties’ attitudes towards Israel
Books & arts
2 December 2024
Strategies and the battlefield take centre-stage in an often gripping history of the First World War’s eastern front
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
Books & arts
24 November 2024
A new history of the original superpower
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
International
22 November 2024
Once again Britain stands by while China breaches the two countries’ agreement on Hong Kong
Books & arts
22 November 2024
Could the Yirrkala Petitions best be understood as an attempt at communication between nations?
Essays & reportage
19 November 2024
How have Australians remembered politics?
Books & arts
31 October 2024
Triple-tested in its own kitchen, the Women’s Weekly’s recipes helped shape Australian tastes. But it had its rivals
Books & arts
24 October 2024
Peter Parker has trawled widely to produce a documentary history of gay life in London from postwar repression to the hope induced by 1957’s Wolfenden report
Essays & reportage
17 October 2024
What the record reveals about the future prime minister and the ornamental pond
Books & arts
16 October 2024
A new biography assesses the record of Labor’s first prime minister
Books & arts
12 October 2024
How Paris’s “Terrible Year” shaped impressionist art
Books & arts
8 October 2024
A new collections of essays critiques a high-profile defence of the British Empire
Books & arts
1 October 2024
Once described as the Zelig of Chinese politics, Zhou Enlai had an uneasy relationship with the Great Helmsman
Essays & reportage
25 September 2024
Once a symbol of greatness, the city’s uneven decline mirrors the national malaise
Books & arts
16 September 2024
Two journeys up the east coast of Australia