The Labor Party email looked suspiciously like mischief. On 10 April national secretary Paul Erickson sent a dispatch to the party’s supporters suggesting new research showed opposition leader Peter ...

As historians of empire, we’ve long been interested in, and frustrated by, colonial portraiture. These physical manifestations of the colonial gaze are the unreliable narrators of a moment of ...

Books & arts Menzies hits his straps Paul Rodan 14 February 2025 Much good luck and a degree of good management enabled the long-serving prime minister to ride the postwar boom ...

Essays & reportage “Undecided” on the Voice Murray Goot 20 June 2023 Depending on the choices pollsters offer, the undecideds range all the way from none to two-thirds of respondents ...

With migration, it’s often a case of being careful what you wish for. • ...

Attacking the government might have given the Coalition some easy wins over the past three years, but does it add up to an ...

Australia’s nuclear debate re-ignited last year when Peter Dutton released the Coalition’s plan to use nuclear power rather than renewables to meet Australia’s emissions-reduction obligations. He gave ...

There is no doubt that telling and learning the truth is for some, including Kate Grenville, a moral imperative. But ...

Who actually wants impartial news? Your first thought might be: everybody! After all, if news is meant to be a reflection of ...