The very right-wing Peter Dutton managed to hold the outfit together by sticking with the Morrison government’s net-zero-by-2050 pledge but proposing to achieve it via nuclear energy. The beauty of ...

Dykes to Watch Out For, a widely syndicated strip cartoon series, ran from 1987 to 2008, ending only after Bechdel achieved ...

Books & arts Authors of their own lives? Marian Quartly 23 September 2025 How children and fathers experienced twentieth-century Australia ...

I had a strange feeling today that we’d entered a true crime tale and it was unclear who the author was,” write Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein in The Mushroom Tapes, one of many ...

The United States will NOT stand for this Global Green New Scam Tax on Shipping…” he declared on Truth Social. “We will not tolerate increased prices on American Consumers OR the creation of a Green ...

International Glass half full in Washington Michael Jacobs 27 April 2025 America played a less destructive role than feared at last week’s spring meetings of the World Bank and the IMF International ...

Near the old Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney a stark slab of wall, angled outward from a glass background, houses a table and a leaning potato-digging spade known as a loy. The glass panels behind it are ...

I’m midway through a bizarre project. I’m trying to find out who my father was. I’m not adopted or a foundling. I lived with my father until I left home in my late teens and I was with him when he ...

This year’s awarding of the Nobel Prize for economics to Joel Mokyr is widely seen as a victory for history. But it might also help us understand the frustrations and desires — not to mention the ...

Labour was the first and greatest of modern social movements, revolutionary in its effects even when it pursued mere reformism, a melodrama of heroes and villains like any grand theatre, and so ...

Peter Dutton is long gone, but the rabid Coalition base isn’t short of potential saviour-leaders who — once they get a chance, equipped with conviction and force of personality — will shake the nation ...