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 ...

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 ...

Arrogant, disrespectful, racist and a liar. When the Northern Territory coroner presented her 683-page report on the death of nineteen-year-old Kumanjayi Walker on Monday, those were some of the ...

What follows in Ellmann’s Joyce is a fascinating account of the sleuthing, diplomacy, energy, patience, curiosity, luck and — perhaps most of all — the sheer unadorned time necessary to write a good ...

In The Shrouds, David Cronenberg meditates on grief, death, technology and the erotic allure of conspiracy ...

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, ...

Just over a week ago, the government did some quiet tidying up. Having made structural changes to a few federal portfolios — most notably shifting the Australian Federal Police and ASIO out of the ...

For well over a decade, Australian policy-makers, journalists and commentators have been absorbed by the question of whether governments have the capacity for significant reform. Can they deliver the ...

The new British guidelines cast Australia’s environmental assessment processes for fossil fuel projects in an unflattering light, to say the least. But the British government is taking a more direct ...

Gail Jones’s eleventh novel, The Name of the Sister, opens with a freelance journalist, Angie, watching a catalogue of miseries on the evening news. Her attention is caught by two successive items ...

But there’s something else to consider. Like its eponymous subject, a novel written by two sisters is, in its way, groundbreaking. But is it really a novel? When I started writing them, novels were ...

In their bestselling book Abundance American journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that rich countries can be much richer. Their citizens can be healthier, their environment more salubrious, ...