Tasmania presents something of a political conundrum. In May 2023 its Liberal government fell into minority with the defection of two members, John Tucker and Lara Alexander. Premier Jeremy Rockliff ...

Washington’s ambitions in the region aren’t going unopposed. Among the groups challenging the dominant narrative of the Micronesian islands as “the tip of the spear” for the US military in the western ...

Nic Maclellan, a correspondent for Islands Business magazine and other regional media, is Inside Story ’s Pacific affairs correspondent.

Books & arts Alone like a finger Nick Haslam 13 June 2025 It was writing that “separated me from everything,” says German writer Judith Hermann in a captivating collection of biographical essays ...

Essays & reportage Beyond words Iain Topliss 18 December 2024 Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons ...

National affairs Labor’s Trump card goes missing Peter Brent 27 May 2025 A key factor in Labor’s election win was forgotten once the postmortems began ...

To be fair, the state department is no stranger to budgetary pressure. Towards the end of the cold war, without a clear antagonist, Washington “let its diplomatic muscles atrophy,” as former secretary ...

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 ...

The question of how to exercise global governance without the United States now turns to the G20. Since it was founded in 1999, the group of the world’s largest economies (now twenty-one of them, ...

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 ...

Outlining his government’s “positive and ambitious agenda” at the National Press Club last week, Anthony Albanese reiterated a series of health policy commitments made during the election campaign: ...

With a few exceptions (including Andrew Leigh, Nicki Hutley and Angela Jackson) mainstream Australian economists — including me — haven’t thought, spoken or written as much about the causes and ...