The obituaries for former Treasury secretary and National Party senator John Stone — who died last week at the age of ninety-six — have so far focused on his thirty-year career as a public servant, ...

It’s far less common, though, for a coroner to devote as much attention as Justice Elisabeth Armitage did to the background ...

Essays & reportage Lidia Thorpe, the UN Declaration and the mob out there Tim Rowse 20 March 2025 Despite her weakness for hyperbole, the high-profile senator has proposed a simple way of bringing ...

Books & arts The price of pleasure Zora Simic 5 June 2025 A journalist explores the “sexual wellness industry ...

National affairs “This is our mandate” Karen Middleton 9 May 2025 Despite a remarkable win, caution will remain the watchword of the Albanese prime ministership ...

In such times, it is useful to consider not just How Tyrants Fall, to quote the title of Marcel Dirsus’s excellent new book, but also the different forms that resistance can take. Jeffrey ...

These risks may explain the second big concern about housing affordability: the worry that “my child can’t afford to buy a house.” While buying a first home might seem “affordable” if we only look at ...

Australia’s renewable energy revolution offers the biggest opportunity since the gold rushes and the wool and mining booms to revitalise regional Australia. Not that you’d know it from the claims made ...

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 ...

The story of Elizabeth Macarthur, a driving force in early New South Wales, highlights some of the gaps in the story of colonial Australia, writes Michelle Scott Tucker ...

Across the southeast of the continent now known as Australia, the recent bushfire season provoked a surge in interest in Aboriginal peoples’ fire practices and knowledge. These practices are often ...

There’s no mystery about the strong sales of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu and its sequel for younger readers, Young Dark Emu: A Truer History. They have helped articulate a desire among non-Indigenous ...