The world’s highest court has just given the Australian government a giant climate headache. For all the rhetorical, political and practical support Australia offers the small Pacific island ...

To really understand a regime, it seems, you need to see inside its political prisons. And in recent years, a succession of intelligent Australians has unwillingly performed that service and written ...

Share The post-American world arrived with a bang when Donald Trump declared a pox on Pax Americana. The gradual erosion of American leadership went into hyperdrive because Trump sees international ...

Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts ...

For well over a decade, Australian policy-makers, journalists and commentators have been absorbed by the question of whether governments have the capacity for significant reform. Can they deliver the ...

The idea that the world needs more babies is fast becoming an orthodoxy. Unless something changes soon, say the pro-natalists, human populations both national and global will decline rapidly, with ...

So begins Robert Garland’s rollicking excursion into death in the ancient world. In What to Expect When You’re Dead, the professor emeritus of classics at New York’s Colgate University ranges over 100 ...

But, as Wendy Michaels shows in A Battle-Axe in the Bear Pit, her new biography of the NSW record-holder Millicent Preston Stanley, these conservative trailblazers hardly received the consistent ...

Judith Hermann has been writing critically acclaimed short stories and novels for almost three decades. Having burst onto the literary scene with the 1998 collection The Summerhouse, Later, she is ...

A few ordinary games as a defender with the Tasmanian Football League’s Glenorchy club ended any prospect I had of a footballing career. In those days, football was still a celebrated part of ...

Too often tales of exploration are told only from a whitefella perspective. But as this story of a roving zoologist reveals, “the observed” were observing closely when the American–Australian ...

For someone who would seem a snug fit for the unspectacular style of political leadership, Anthony Albanese has certainly left his mark on Australian political history in a short space of time: first ...