A new biography explores the life of an eighteenth-century European visitor to the Pacific Islands who “embraced the ...

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As Ridler writes, the name’s “history is changed, becoming yours, / And yours by this: who calls this, calls you.” So, the ...

But we all know from decades of experience that primary votes don’t decide elections: two-party-preferred ones do, or at least two-candidate-preferred… and in fact three-candidate-preferred ones, ...

Efforts to settle the maritime boundary between Vanuatu and New Caledonia continue to be blocked by France’s attachment to two uninhabited islands ...

The divide has the professional policy elite on one side and, on the other, the people. In this account, the people are the legitimate but greatly underutilised resource when it comes to policymaking.

With his new book on the Abbott–Turnbull–Morrison era, the Australian’s editor-at-large Paul Kelly has completed what his publishers call a “masterful trilogy on modern Australian politics,” which ...

A huge statue of a horse stands on the shore, waves lapping around it. By rights it should be a towering figure, reared up on its hind legs, but it is half buried in sand, seemingly abandoned to the ...

Books & arts Larrikins, legends and legislators Frank Bongiorno 15 October 2025 Three new books explore the labour movement’s evolution Essays & reportage Making their political mark Frank Bongiorno ...

“One Nation surges ahead of Labor as budget flops,” said the Australian Financial Review’s headline on Monday, and it was mostly correct. The bit about the budget is old news and entirely true. But it ...

When a determined and resourceful young man from Punjab — I’ll call him Hari — was driving me home recently, our conversation turned to his experiences and aspirations in Australia. He’d finished a ...