A pacey dramatisation of News International’s phone-hacking and influence-wielding leaves the story necessarily unfinished ...

When Papua New Guinea became independent on 16 September 1975, Australia departed with high hopes and quiet fears. After a colonial/protectorate/trusteeship role of ...

International It’s not just police who police Nic Maclellan 20 September 2024 An Australian plan to improve policing in the Pacific deals with just one element of the islands’ crime and conflict ...

National affairs Let’s just get this done, shall we? Karen Middleton 18 July 2025 A former Treasury secretary lays down the environmental law ...

Books & arts Pluralism exists; we just need to accept it Harry Hobbs 27 August 2025 The European Union’s relations with its member states could help us navigate the process of treaty-making ...

National affairs On parade in a new age of wars Graeme Dobell 19 June 2025 As Iran and Israel wage war, big military parades are held in the United States and Britain Books & arts The journalist and ...

As we enter the second decade of the Australian debate about constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, one thing has become clear. The only viable way forward — as ...

With the Senate threatening to block a majority of the government’s proposed savings measures, the 2014 federal budget is undoubtedly the most controversial for many years. Even though the fiscal ...

It is salutary to turn on the television on the morning after the biggest landslide to the Labor Party since 1943 and the Liberal Party’s worst-ever election defeat. We must have had Sky on by the ...

Nations are built with pens and brushes not just hammers and nails. They exhibit their character in what they say about themselves as much as what is said about them. — Bruce Pascoe, Convincing Ground ...

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, the world’s attention has focused on what quickly became a grinding war of attrition, with its endless drone and missile ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...