For almost a decade, we — a Muslim and a Jew — have worked side by side, in partnership and trust, to strengthen social cohesion in Australia. Our relationship was not forged in abstraction or ...

National affairs Gallup’s errant offspring Murray Goot 16 September 2025 How did pollsters come up with such different figures on Palestinian recognition?

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

In November 2017 a group of protesters in São Paulo burnt an effigy of acclaimed gender theorist Judith Butler outside an academic conference she was attending, while waving crucifixes and national ...

What will the House of Representatives crossbench look like after next year’s election? The answer could well determine who forms government. The current one — sixteen members in the 151-strong ...

“I cannot live with You —” goes Emily Dickinson’s poem. “It would be Life —/ And Life is over there —/ Behind the Shelf.” Once upon a time many Australian homes had the books of Patrick White out ...

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, the world’s attention has focused on what quickly became a grinding war of attrition, with its endless drone and missile ...

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 ...

Five genre-bending drama series made keenly anticipated returns to television this year, all of them meeting expectations convincingly enough to ensure a further season. Clearing the hurdle for ...

Nations are built with pens and brushes not just hammers and nails. They exhibit their character in what they say about themselves as much as what is said about them. — Bruce Pascoe, Convincing Ground ...

It is salutary to turn on the television on the morning after the biggest landslide to the Labor Party since 1943 and the Liberal Party’s worst-ever election defeat. We must have had Sky on by the ...

PIX was a phenomenon, a magazine that brought images of ordinary and not-so-ordinary life into homes and workplaces, documenting Australia and the wider world — sometimes brutally, sometimes ...