The idea that masculinity is in crisis is not new, but it has taken on a new urgency. Maleness itself, not just actual men, is increasingly identified as a source of outward toxicity and inward harm.

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 ...

What happened when the satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer, who died on Saturday at ninety-seven, came to puritanical Adelaide in 1960?

Viewers who wanted those channels could watch the Sydney versions via the 10 Play app or website. The Seven, Nine, ABC and SBS over-the-air signals would still be available in the area. This was what ...

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 ...

The world’s highest court has just given the Australian government a giant climate headache. For all the rhetorical, political and practical support Australia offers the small Pacific island ...

Books & arts The art of disagreeing Jock Given 23 August 2021 “We should be civil with those we don’t know, and aim to know them well enough that we can be uncivil,” argues a new book From the archive ...

There’s a story about Hubert Parry, King Charles’s favourite composer, hearing Arnold Schoenberg’s atonal Five Orchestral Pieces Op. 16. It was in 1914, two years before Parry composed “Jerusalem” to ...

If the biggest surprise of May’s federal election was its lopsided result, a secondary one was the extent to which the Coalition had guzzled down the Voice referendum Kool-Aid. Down to their ...

To really understand a regime, it seems, you need to see inside its political prisons. And in recent years, a succession of intelligent Australians has unwillingly performed that service and written ...