So it was on Sunday when news broke that US planes had bombed three nuclear sites in Iran. No Australian cabinet minister fronted up with a comment (a blessing of Sunday). The press gallery doyen, ...

The American bestseller Abundance is making waves in Australia, but its key argument has less force on this side of the Pacific ...

A leaked transcript of a Liberal Women’s Council meeting highlights the challenges facing Sussan Ley over women’s representation ...

The idea that the world needs more babies is fast becoming an orthodoxy. Unless something changes soon, say the pro-natalists, human populations both national and global will decline rapidly, with ...

It takes something for a prime minister with a majority of 156 to contrive a parliamentary defeat. But that was Sir Keir Starmer’s singular achievement this week. Or it would have been, had he not ...

Sussan Ley’s choice of Kerrynne Liddle as shadow Indigenous Australians minister symbolises her resolve to renew and moderate the parliamentary Liberal Party. Liddle evinces sobriety and worldly ...

But there’s something else to consider. Like its eponymous subject, a novel written by two sisters is, in its way, groundbreaking. But is it really a novel? When I started writing them, novels were ...

Gail Jones’s eleventh novel, The Name of the Sister, opens with a freelance journalist, Angie, watching a catalogue of miseries on the evening news. Her attention is caught by two successive items ...

In their bestselling book Abundance American journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that rich countries can be much richer. Their citizens can be healthier, their environment more salubrious, ...

With monuments to Alexander Pushkin being removed all over Ukraine, the arrival of a bust of the poet in Canberra gains extra resonance ...

Wealthy families cycle from rags to riches and back again within three generations — or so goes the old saying. But that hasn’t been the case for that uniquely Australian dynasty, the Packers, whose ...

In November last year a young German woman created headlines when she took to the stage during a rally against pandemic restrictions in Hannover. “Hello, I’m Jana from Kassel,” she began. “And I feel ...