These projections are easily accessible, and anyone with a spreadsheet and a bit of time can reproduce them. Yet in the stream of pro-natalist articles in both traditional and new media the evidence ...

Major U-turns are never a good look for a government’s reputation for competence. But this is Starmer’s third in as many months. He had already reversed Reeves’s highly unpopular abolition of the ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

Outlining his government’s “positive and ambitious agenda” at the National Press Club last week, Anthony Albanese reiterated a series of health policy commitments made during the election campaign: ...

“Scarborough Fair” is what Ellen Stekert calls a “go around song,” one that is passed from singer to singer, down centuries, across oceans, shape-shifting all the while. “Go around songs” shed and ...

Despite these reservations, White’s insistence on the importance of future time is a welcome addition to political science research, which is often conducted as if it involved taking snapshots of ...

In a sweeping introduction to his 1958 book Australian Democracy the Melbourne political scientist A.F. Davies notoriously claimed that “the characteristic talent of Australians is not for ...

The warehouses of Hobart’s Old Wharf were built where vessels disembarked many of the 67,000 convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land from Britain, Ireland and other parts of the British Empire.

There are so many affinities between Johnson and the Clever Man that there is no real doubt the story was inspired by Johnson’s visit in 1948. While in Arnhem Land, Johnson carried out a survey of ...