National affairs
5 May 2025
The signs were there but the size of the swings still came as a shock
National affairs
4 May 2025
The party is taking a long time to understand its plight
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
Books & arts
29 April 2025
A sociologist’s dissection of hyperglobalisation and its legacies
National affairs
28 April 2025
What history tells Australia about the US alliance
National affairs
25 April 2025
Retirements by longstanding MPs are adding to the election campaign’s complexity as it heads into its final week
National affairs
24 April 2025
Early voting, preference dealing, overinterpreted polls and an underwhelming debate: notes from another week of campaigning
National affairs
22 April 2025
Some polls are suggesting it will — but what distinguishes those polls from the ones that aren’t?
International
21 April 2025
Canada’s Liberals enter the final week of the election campaign with plenty of help from south of the border
National affairs
18 April 2025
Targeting the opposition leader’s seat serves more than one purpose for Labor
Books & arts
14 April 2025
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has built a political philosophy on her family’s efforts to reconcile the past and the future
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?
National affairs
11 April 2025
Attacking the government might have given the Coalition some easy wins over the past three years, but does it add up to an election strategy?
National affairs
11 April 2025
Slashing migration is much harder than it sounds
International
11 April 2025
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are responding to a similar problem in dramatically different ways
Essays & reportage
11 April 2025
Is Peter Dutton’s energy plan going the way of a succession of nuclear pushes?
Books & arts
10 April 2025
Robert Kaplan’s latest book is characteristically thoughtful and necessarily bleak
National affairs
9 April 2025
Pollsters are giving Labor a winning edge, but the government has reasons to be cautious
National affairs
8 April 2025
Is electoral history about to assert itself once again?
Books & arts
8 April 2025
As Australia faces a crisis of orientation, an expatriate argues that being adaptable is better than being visionary
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
National affairs
6 April 2025
Australian exporters might well cope with a 10 per cent tariff, but a worldwide recession is another thing altogether
National affairs
4 April 2025
Australia’s narrow escape from tariffs during Donald Trump’s first presidency created hostility that could complicate efforts to respond to his latest move
National affairs
3 April 2025
Do election campaigns matter? Fifty years of federal elections reveal a complex picture
Other Voices
1 April 2025
J.D. Vance is attempting to straddle two diametrically opposed tendencies on the radical right
National affairs
28 March 2025
The last week of parliament exposed where the tensions lie on both sides of politics
National affairs
25 March 2025
Taswegians tend to go their own way at national elections, and that can matter when the results are close
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