And the plan is just the problem. At best, it offers a respite in Gaza. It is not a blueprint for peace between Israelis and ...

The Joint Select Committee on Electoral Matters is to “inquire into and report on all aspects of the conduct of the 2025 federal election and related matters, including consideration of the following, ...

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has long been a favourite. Tony Abbott, who one senses has been dreaming of a comeback for the past ...

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The US president’s erratic approach to pharmaceutical pricing won’t do much to help Americans. But what about Australians?

Near the old Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney a stark slab of wall, angled outward from a glass background, houses a table and a leaning potato-digging spade known as a loy. The glass panels behind it are ...

This year’s awarding of the Nobel Prize for economics to Joel Mokyr is widely seen as a victory for history. But it might also help us understand the frustrations and desires — not to mention the ...

Sometime in 2017 a group of friends in Oxford, all with backgrounds in South Asia, were reflecting on their families’ memories of “the partition” and the exit of the British from their Indian empire ...

The most important date in the life of the Turnbull government came before it began, on 1 December 2009. That was the day Tony Abbott defeated Malcolm Turnbull after a revolt by the right wing of the ...

Books & arts Must all monuments fall? Martha Macintyre 1 September 2025 An archaeologist makes the case for toppling statues and returning plunder ...

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