Almost 25 years after the September 11 attacks prompted rapid changes to Australia’s terrorism laws, the definition of what a terrorist act actually is now faces interrogation ...

The focus of the government’s reform roundtable has morphed from “productivity” to “economic reform”, but there’s been no change to its overarching question: what comes next?

One morning last month I was woken by what I thought was a bomb or an earthquake. It was, rather, several bottles of liquor that had been smashed upon our porch and front door: the opening act of a ...

Wind farm near Albany, Western Australia / CC BY-SA 2.5 The government’s climate-action agenda has its predictable detractors, but the current decentralised approach is risking a fall in wider public ...

What might be needed to convince Türkiye to clear the way for an Australia–Pacific partnership to host the COP31 climate summit?

The farcical claim that Scott Morrison was “standing up for women” when he intervened in NSW Liberal preselections to save two men and one woman is somehow still being propagated. The woman in ...

Tutors, mentors and the transmission of knowledge across generations are abiding themes in the work of Alan Hollinghurst. In his breakout novel, The Swimming-Pool Library, a modern libertine befriends ...

Dark Emu appeared in bookshops in March 2014 much as most books do: with a brief publicity campaign arranged by its publisher. Bruce Pascoe was already something of a public figure – as well as ...

Economist Richard Denniss responds to the International Monetary Fund’s latest review of the Australian economy, which questions the appropriateness of the Stage Three tax cuts.

The last two weekends have seen voters apparently confirm their growing endorsement of the Australian Labor Party, which now governs the entirety of mainland Australia at both state and federal levels ...

Disgraced wellness influencer Belle Gibson’s brain needs to be studied in a lab, just not for the reasons she would have you believe. The broad strokes of her story will likely be familiar to viewers ...