The Liberals’ talk of “renewal” looks less like reform than ritual – invoking origins to avoid confronting decline. The real lesson is not about personalities, but how power loses legitimacy when it ...

After decades of US-backed regime-change wars across the Middle East, Iran now stands alone. A new conflict would deepen regional instability and test Australia’s willingness to say no.

Espionage today is less about weapons than insider access to economic policy. Australia’s muted response to the PwC scandal ...

Jessica Perini is an editor of hundreds of fiction and non-fiction works, including Robert Macklin's, The Man Who Planted Canberra: Charles Weston and His Three Million Trees (NLA, 2025). She has been ...

Pearls and Irritations contributor Robert Macklin has died aged 84. His brilliant writing combined political critique, historical insight and moral urgency, leaving a lasting mark on Australian public ...

ASIO’s pre-emptive attack on a Four Corners investigation into the Bondi killings was vague, thinly evidenced and ultimately ...

The White House and Congress can and should provide relief to American families who bore the costs of illegal tariffs. The administration has the responsibility to design such relief.

The 50 per cent capital gains tax discount departs from the original purpose of taxing real gains, entrenches inequality and unfairly advantages wealth over work.

Western efforts to secure critical mineral supply chains from China are increasingly driven by security logic. That approach risks raising costs, slowing decarbonisation and undermining the global ...

Many of Australia’s most pressing social and economic problems can be traced to policy choices made during the Howard years, ...

Canada and New Zealand cut migration sharply and saw modest rent falls – but only alongside weaker labour markets and ...

A US allegation that China conducted a secret nuclear test was widely reported despite clear evidence to the contrary, highlighting how security claims are too often treated as facts before they are ...