A kind of elegy Susan Lever 27 June 2025 An award-winning memoir honours cultures old and new Not alone in the dark tunnel Tanya Dalziell 27 June 2025 Gail Jones’s latest novel echoes the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

It’s a weekday afternoon in late February and I’m taking a nostalgic walk around the leafy streets of the suburb where I grew up. West Pymble, a generally unassuming place, sits on the unfashionable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...