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 ...

Lesley Russell is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Sydney’s Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and ...

“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 ...

Australia’s relations with Russia have what you might call a colourful history. Spying has been at the heart of it. Tony Abbott famously vowed to shirtfront president Vladimir Putin in 2014 after ...

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 ...

The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer calls it “a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science.” Donald Trump’s administration seems intent on dismantling the educational ...

Data from the ABS’s Survey of Income and Housing — which is normally conducted every two years, though the latest was in 2019–20 — shows that the share of “total household net worth” owned by the top ...

National affairs Australia’s widening wealth gap, and what to do about it Saul Eslake 3 June 2025 Growing wealth inequality is setting Australia up for conflict, but solutions aren’t out of reach ...

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 ...

This new book’s journey to publication has been fraught. Originally titled Repellent, it was scheduled to be published in April 2023.Speaking circumspectly, Bailey has explained that the executors of ...

In my day job, I run a lab dedicated to research and development in AI for law enforcement and community safety. We’re preoccupied with building what’s euphemistically described as “technology for ...