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, ...

Keen as mustard. The murder occurs on the first formal day of the congress, that day of 42.5C heat. A party is held at 3.30pm in the gardens of Parliament House. Marquees are set up among the young ...

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 ...

An auspiciously timed amendment to departmental responsibilities highlights a long delay in federal electronic-surveillance reforms ...

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 ...