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

Just orders from above.” “They are crumbling; they need to go,” Andrews declared. Within a week, he himself was gone, but the ...

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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, ...

Few things are more intuitive about the smartphone era than the fact that devices have torpedoed our interest in reading and dragged down the status that books and their authors once seemed to enjoy.

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

The closing submissions of counsel assisting any judicial inquiry or royal commission often give a clue to the eventual findings, and so it has been with the NSW Supreme Court’s inquiry into the ...