He’s also not for turning on his proposed changes to taxing unrealised capital gains on superannuation accounts above $3 ...

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 ...

In 1994, a single unemployed person would have received an income that was about $9 a week (in 2015–16 values) more than a person at the 10 per cent point in the distribution of all incomes. In ...

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Similarly, in Fishwick’s “ Man on the bank of the Snowy River between Pinch River and Jacobs River ” (1932), the man, placed in the left-hand band of the golden mean, looks across the water towards a ...

The contrasting fates of fifteen-year-olds in Canada and Australia reflect different choices made well over a century ago. In their own ways, both countries exhibit a significant degree of path ...

When Sussan Ley selected her frontbench in May, she replaced Jacinta Nampijinpa Price as shadow Indigenous Australians minister with Kerrynne Liddle. The choice was a symbolic step in Ley’s centrist ...

In her ambition, her fortitude and her love for her family, Elizabeth Macarthur was just like these other strong, intelligent and successful women. She is interesting not because she was some sort of ...

For those who have studied the postcolonial history of fire management in southern Australia, it has been baffling to read media accounts that assume Aboriginal peoples’ fire knowledge needs ...

It is salutary to turn on the television on the morning after the biggest landslide to the Labor Party since 1943 and the Liberal Party’s worst-ever election defeat. We must have had Sky on by the ...

Gabriële Buffet met Francis Picabia on a warm autumn evening in Verseilles in 1908. She was a gifted musician, he a successful painter like Gabriële’s brother Jean. Jean was taking his friend to meet ...

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.