Essays & reportage
25 June 2025
A former leader’s trajectory is also the story of the Liberal Party’s narrowing base
Books & arts
16 June 2025
The first woman elected to NSW parliament used any means possible — from petitions to theatrical melodrama — to advance her causes
Books & arts
6 July 2024
Can this philosophical tradition offer a blueprint for a just society?
National affairs
7 June 2023
What was Greg Sheridan doing in Budapest?
National affairs
8 February 2017
This week’s events underline the fact that Liberals are still struggling with the question of how they can be more than simply an anti-Labor party
Essays & reportage
23 March 2015
“There was nothing before Oxford, really,” says Malcolm Fraser in this extract from his political memoirs, written with Margaret Simons
Books & arts
5 November 2014
How we should accommodate and respect the values of people who aren’t like us? A new book has some of the answers, writes Janna Thompson
National affairs
1 December 2009
The turmoil will continue, writes Geoffrey Barker, and meanwhile the small “l” liberals are missing in action
National affairs
27 November 2009
This could be the end of the Liberal Party as we know it, argues Geoffrey Barker
National affairs
17 November 2009
Geoffrey Barker dissects George Brandis’s defence of liberalism in the face of his party’s dalliance with conservatism
National affairs
11 August 2009
The eventful lives and uneventful memoirs of George Reid and Ned Hogan show that politics and self-reflection don’t always go together. Will John Howard follow their…
National affairs
20 May 2009
Tolerance, freedom and democracy can only survive if core elements of the liberal tradition are transformed, writes David West
National affairs
13 January 2009
The year 1909 saw a seachange in Australian politics, writes Norman Abjorensen on the anniversary of the fusion of the non-Labor parties