Tasmania presents something of a political conundrum. In May 2023 its Liberal government fell into minority with the defection of two members, John Tucker and Lara Alexander. Premier Jeremy Rockliff ...

Viewers who wanted those channels could watch the Sydney versions via the 10 Play app or website. The Seven, Nine, ABC and SBS over-the-air signals would still be available in the area. This was what ...

The world’s highest court has just given the Australian government a giant climate headache. For all the rhetorical, political and practical support Australia offers the small Pacific island ...

To really understand a regime, it seems, you need to see inside its political prisons. And in recent years, a succession of intelligent Australians has unwillingly performed that service and written ...

The post-American world arrived with a bang when Donald Trump declared a pox on Pax Americana. The gradual erosion of American leadership went into hyperdrive because Trump sees international ...

Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts ...

The obituaries for former Treasury secretary and National Party senator John Stone — who died last week at the age of ninety-six — have so far focused on his thirty-year career as a public servant, ...

And yet, as Marcel Dirsus shows in How Tyrants Fall, there are still ways of bringing them down. Dirsus draws on a global range of examples to illustrate the extreme lengths to which dictators must go ...

For well over a decade, Australian policy-makers, journalists and commentators have been absorbed by the question of whether governments have the capacity for significant reform. Can they deliver the ...

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 ...

So begins Robert Garland’s rollicking excursion into death in the ancient world. In What to Expect When You’re Dead, the professor emeritus of classics at New York’s Colgate University ranges over 100 ...