As Australia faces a crisis of orientation, an expatriate argues that being adaptable is better than being visionary ...

In his first term as prime minister Anthony Albanese was confronted by two long-term historical challenges. He prevailed over one of them when his government won an opposition-held seat (Aston) at a ...

Visitors to the Hotel Robert in Saint Pierre et Miquelon, just off the coast of Newfoundland, can view a straw hat that purportedly belonged to Al Capone. The notorious American gangster used the tiny ...

Michael Tippett completed his fifth and final opera, New Year, in 1988, the English composer’s own eighty-fourth year. It had its first production at Houston Grand Opera, directed by Peter Hall, the ...

If anyone doubted that Australia’s most important diplomatic relationship is now brutally transactional, Thursday’s mugged-by-reality announcement in Washington should relegate the idea to fantasy ...

Books & arts In Romancelandia Jock Given 4 February 2025 Stigmatised in the publishing world’s past, romance writers were ready for its future ...

National affairs Who belongs in the Senate? William Maley 6 December 2024 Pauline Hanson is wrong and Fatima Payman right about the question of eligibility ...

As we enter the election campaign proper, Labor and the Coalition are promising to make our lives much better. Inflation will go down and wages up, despite Trump’s tariff wrecking ball crashing ...

To sum up the last half-century: in 1972 and 1974 Labor won all five Tasmania’s seats. Then from 1975 to 1984 the Liberals ...

Government schools, even in Queensland, will at last get the full Gonski. That is a win: not as big a win as it would have been in 2012 when the “I Give a Gonski” movement was riding high, and more a ...

What is a tribe? Anthropologists use the term very cautiously, for it has lost its earlier meanings of ethnicity and bounded social groups and taken on connotations of primitivity or blind adherence ...

Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada begins with the preparation of a room. There’s a practised efficiency as well as a ritual quality to the way three people unpack boxes, move furniture, shift a Christmas ...