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 ...

Last week Donald Trump used social media to make a splash. Nothing unusual about that, except that this time the American president was announcing his country would resume testing nuclear weapons.

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

Books & arts Cross-class coupling Sara Dowse 13 June 2024 What can cross-class relationships tell us about Australia’s semi-visible inequalities? Books & arts Injured instincts Sara Dowse 12 May 2023 ...

International Glass half full in Washington Michael Jacobs 27 April 2025 America played a less destructive role than feared at last week’s spring meetings of the World Bank and the IMF International ...

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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 ...

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 ...

This year’s awarding of the Nobel Prize for economics to Joel Mokyr is widely seen as a victory for history. But it might also help us understand the frustrations and desires — not to mention the ...

Labour was the first and greatest of modern social movements, revolutionary in its effects even when it pursued mere reformism, a melodrama of heroes and villains like any grand theatre, and so ...