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

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..

Books & arts Empire of the southern seas Alessandro Antonello 27 May 2025 Australia is better seen as a vast archipelago, according to a new exploration of its iciest reaches Books & arts How little ...

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

National affairs Big-spending blues David Clune 25 February 2019 The NSW government’s privatisation and investment strategy has fallen out of sync with the electoral cycle National affairs Labor’s ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Books & arts Amen to ignorance Nick Haslam 11 March 2025 Is not knowing sometimes more rational than knowing? Books & arts Love, Oliver Nick Haslam 16 January 2025 Nothing exposes the famed ...

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 ...

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 ...