The American bestseller Abundance is making waves in Australia, but its key argument has less force on this side of the Pacific ...

The first woman elected to NSW parliament used any means possible — from petitions to theatrical melodrama — to advance her ...

“Scarborough Fair” is what Ellen Stekert calls a “go around song,” one that is passed from singer to singer, down centuries, across oceans, shape-shifting all the while. “Go around songs” shed and ...

Essays & reportage A Silicon Valley for energy? Ben Potter 24 June 2025 Australian solutions to renewable energy’s teething problems are attracting international interest Books & arts Are we getting ...

The heroine of Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (in cinemas), the first feature from French writer-director Laura Piani, is also holding herself apart from the dating game, but for very different reasons..

At the annual Shangri La security dialogue in Singapore two weeks ago, US defense secretary Pete Hegseth didn’t just ask Australia to spend more on defence. He also unveiled plans for a new US ...

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 ...

If citizens don’t have confidence in their public services, at least on balance, they will be more reluctant to pay taxes and the extent and quality of services will spiral downwards. It’s worth ...

Does anyone remember “American carnage”? In his 2017 inaugural address Donald Trump portrayed a collapsing society, emphasising in particular the “crime and gangs and drugs” destroying America’s ...

In his book, and in various presentations accessible on You Tube, White traces the emergence since the late eighteenth century of different types of futurity that have animated political movements as ...

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, public ...

In contrast, relatively few of the pictures convey the darker side of everyday life. One such, “Two small children in Surry Hills” (1932, below), photographer unknown, seems by its relative rarity to ...