Media Watch, ABC’s long-running scourge of shoddy journalistic practices, is back for another year with Linton Besser as its ...

So when a new example of the genre (a dual biography by dual biographers, no less) sums up the story in six introductory ...

Bill Clinton, in Gallup polling, had a rough beginning but didn’t go underwater until May 1993, four months in. At the end of ...

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An election had become necessary after a coalition government, led by a hapless Social Democrat, failed to agree on a major funding issue and collapsed. During a heated election campaign in which the ...

National affairs No longer fit for purpose Paddy Gourley 30 August 2024 It’s time for a reborn immigration department outside Canberra’s bulging home affairs portfolio ...

Across the Western world and aligned countries in Asia the question on many minds is: Are the Americans still the good guys? Especially after the shocks delivered by Donald Trump’s representatives at ...

Books & arts War of the worlds Hamish McDonald 12 September 2024 Silk Road sceptic William Dalrymple argues for the centrality of India in ancient times Books & arts Distant crimes, nearby ...

Essays & reportage “The election that never was” Jenny Hocking and Allison Cadzow 5 August 2024 Gough Whitlam’s 1974 gamble on a double dissolution election paid off for key legislation ...

Three years into Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the global system we have known since 1945 is finished. As historian Philip Ther has argued, we find ourselves at the end of a “great ...

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is an over-long epic about the making of a huge and, so far as we can tell, ugly building (though several characters insist it is “beautiful”). The building holds a secret ...

In his enveloping, tactile Grand Tour (currently in cinemas), Portuguese director Miguel Gomes takes us on a hectic yet leisurely adventure in storytelling that blurs boundaries between past and ...