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 ...

Tuesday this week was a very good day for Democrats and a very bad day for both MAGA and the oligarchy. If I were a properly house-trained pundit, I would immediately follow that statement by throwing ...

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 ...

Books & arts Authors of their own lives? Marian Quartly 23 September 2025 How children and fathers experienced twentieth-century Australia ...

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 ...

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

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, the world’s attention has focused on what quickly became a grinding war of attrition, with its endless drone and missile ...

After months of public brinkmanship, with interest groups and commentators barracking from the sidelines and the threat of a double dissolution election hanging overhead, the federal government has ...