National affairs It’s no time to lose our heads Paul Strangio 8 November 2024 What lessons should Labor take away from the Democratic Party’s defeat?

Essays & reportage Is grown-up government enough? Paul Strangio 3 September 2024 The puzzle of Anthony Albanese’s struggling prime ministership ...

You don’t have to be a full-on Freudian to see the truth in Freud’s proposal that jokes are the release of pent-up ...

Books & arts Where Cook saw a camel Marian Quartly 16 September 2024 Two journeys up the east coast of Australia Books & arts Demythologising the frontier Larissa Behrendt 6 December 2023 David Marr’s ...

Books & arts Three “bloody difficult” subjects Tim Rowse 4 July 2023 Historian Ruth Ross, the Waitangi Treaty and historical mythmaking are the subjects of a provocative account of New Zealand’s ...

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Books & arts The outsiders Antonia Finnane 11 February 2025 Has Guan Hu made a film about the feral dogs of Chixia — or about China itself?

Peter Dutton says he regards John Howard as more of a role model than Donald Trump. That’s a relief. Hang on, though, which John Howard is he talking about? When it comes to race and immigration, it’s ...

In just a few short weeks the Trump administration has halted, overturned, defunded or revised vaccine-related research programs, approvals processes and public health guidance, with steps underway to ...

Essays & reportage Is this our biggest miscarriage of justice? Hamish McDonald 22 November 2024 A judicial inquiry has been told of withheld evidence that would have fundamentally challenged the case ...