The obituaries for former Treasury secretary and National Party senator John Stone — who died last week at the age of ninety-six — have so far focused on his thirty-year career as a public servant, ...

It’s far less common, though, for a coroner to devote as much attention as Justice Elisabeth Armitage did to the background ...

Books & arts The price of pleasure Zora Simic 5 June 2025 A journalist explores the “sexual wellness industry ...

National affairs “This is our mandate” Karen Middleton 9 May 2025 Despite a remarkable win, caution will remain the watchword of the Albanese prime ministership ...

In such times, it is useful to consider not just How Tyrants Fall, to quote the title of Marcel Dirsus’s excellent new book, but also the different forms that resistance can take. Jeffrey ...

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, ...

These risks may explain the second big concern about housing affordability: the worry that “my child can’t afford to buy a house.” While buying a first home might seem “affordable” if we only look at ...

The story of Elizabeth Macarthur, a driving force in early New South Wales, highlights some of the gaps in the story of colonial Australia, writes Michelle Scott Tucker ...

The question of how to exercise global governance without the United States now turns to the G20. Since it was founded in 1999, the group of the world’s largest economies (now twenty-one of them, ...

Mathias Cormann has an unchallenged reputation as the Mr Dependable of the Turnbull government. But even so, his shepherding of the income tax cuts legislation through a fractious and erratic Senate ...

When another Newspoll dropped this week (51–49 in the Coalition’s favour, again) the Australian mentioned a change in how its pollsters will be estimating two-party-preferred figures between now and ...

ACCORDING to social services minister Kevin Andrews, the latest figures from his department show that one-in-five Australians received some form of government income support in 2012, at a cost of over ...