The very right-wing Peter Dutton managed to hold the outfit together by sticking with the Morrison government’s net-zero-by-2050 pledge but proposing to achieve it via nuclear energy. The beauty of ...

Dykes to Watch Out For, a widely syndicated strip cartoon series, ran from 1987 to 2008, ending only after Bechdel achieved ...

I had a strange feeling today that we’d entered a true crime tale and it was unclear who the author was,” write Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein in The Mushroom Tapes, one of many ...

National affairs Lessons for Australian schooling Chris Bonnor 7 August 2025 Successful overseas systems are no panacea for Australia’s problems, but they can help us think more clearly about the ...

Other Voices Trump is losing the public. Will that matter? Paul Krugman 10 September 2025 Can a despised autocrat consolidate power without popular support?

Books & arts Certain ideas of France Anne Freadman 16 September 2025 Gertrude Stein’s latest biographer continues the debate about her wartime activities ...

The United States will NOT stand for this Global Green New Scam Tax on Shipping…” he declared on Truth Social. “We will not tolerate increased prices on American Consumers OR the creation of a Green ...

Australian schooling lives within the comprehensive failure of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s “education revolution.” David Gonski’s proposals, by some margin the best of a bad lot, had only limited ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...