Housing affordability is the barbecue stopper of the moment. Both state and Commonwealth governments have declared it a priority. But before governments launch into policy changes, it’s worth ...

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 ...

Given the torrential rainstorms that battered the Brazilian city of Belém as COP30 concluded a couple of weeks ago, it wouldn’t be strictly accurate to say that the dust has settled on the latest UN ...

THE story of the devastation of the NSW Labor Party in 2011 begins on the night of one of its more miraculous victories. On Saturday 24 March 2007, the premier, Morris Iemma – whose government had ...

“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 ...

The politicians and soldiers do the work but the thinkers give the world the language and concepts to understand power: Machiavelli wrestles Marx while Clausewitz argues theory with Sun Tzu and ...

From Port Moresby’s founding early last century — when it was little more than a dozen corrugated iron shacks, a tennis court and McCrann’s tin-shed tavern — to the sprawling city it is today, Papua ...

On his way to Canberra airport recently, Rohan Greenland asked his cab driver to pull over. For anyone who knows Greenland — a public health advocate who likes to “walk the talk” — it will come as no ...

The burial sites of two of Australia’s most significant founding figures have attracted attention in different ways over the past decade. Bennelong’s grave — always known to be somewhere in the modern ...

Does Australia need more federal politicians? Special minister of state Don Farrell (and hence prime minister Anthony Albanese) seems to think so. Farrell included the idea in the terms of reference ...

Wan Gang cuts a diminutive figure, but when he speaks all ten people sitting around the table listen intently. In an opulent Shanghai hotel conference room lit by golden chandeliers, he is surrounded ...

Early last month, in what was Britain’s worst mass shooting in years, a man named Jake Davison shot dead five people, including a three-year-old girl, in Plymouth. Davison had posted a series of ...