Does compulsory voting encourage turnout among voters in the “centre” with little interest in politics who would otherwise stay at home — or does it perhaps encourage political entrepreneurs such as ...

Essays & reportage Which are the polls to watch? Murray Goot 14 April 2025 Does the national two-party vote tell us whether Labor will finish with the most MPs, or will it come down to 150 ...

National affairs Freedom from information Peter Mares 5 September 2025 The government’s FOI plan runs counter to its promised opening up of non-sensitive data ...

National affairs A poll that answers Dutton’s dreams… Murray Goot 10 March 2025 … winning without defeating any teals or Greens National affairs Losing ground? Murray Goot 9 June 2023 Support for the ...

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 ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

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 ...

Buried in the communiqué of last month’s Pacific Islands Forum, at item 30, is a single sentence: “Leaders accepted French Polynesia and New Caledonia as full members of the Pacific Islands Forum.” ...

When YouTube announced last week that it was suspending Sky News Australia’s account for a week because it was transmitting misinformation about Covid-19, it felt like the social media company had ...

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 ...

“Meritocracy” is one of the great taken-for-granteds of our times. When the Productivity Commission looked at social mobility rates recently it reported in tones of relief and pleasure that we’re ...