AI will inevitably play a role in medicine, as it will in many fields of work. It’s already arrived in the form of scribe programs that produce consultation notes and chatbots t ...

Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You begins with the tightest of closeups of one of Rose Byrne’s eyeballs. And that relentless sense of proximity never really lets up; this is a film that ...

National affairs Productivity puzzles John Edwards 14 August 2025 Should company taxes changes really be a priority at the next week’s economic summit?

Books & arts Australia in the world Graeme Dobell 8 August 2025 An indispensable seventy-year record of foreign policy reaches its thirteenth volume Books & arts How Australia does security and ...

International Benefits and costs Michael Jacobs 29 June 2025 Keir Starmer is paying a heavy price for spending cuts that lacked a defensible rationale International A shift in the climate for COP29 ...

Accusations that her grandmother was a communist spy or a fascist collaborator — or both — sent Lea Ypi back to Albania and into her own imagination ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In recent years, as a historian of Australia, I’ve found that the book people most wanted to talk to me about is Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu. Many readers speak of it with a sense of astonishment and ...

There was a time when the leadership of the Liberal opposition swung like a pendulum. Back and forth, left to right, right to left. In the 1980s, against the Hawke government, we had Andrew Peacock ...