A credible teal threat to the Liberals in Sydney’s Bradfield raises the question: would minority government be so bad?

Niall becomes a character in the narrative, whispering in the reader’s ear: “It may be…,” “It is likely…,” “Perhaps…” Each insight becomes “a trail of breadcrumbs” that helps answer that question of ...

Essays & reportage “The election that never was” Jenny Hocking and Allison Cadzow 5 August 2024 Gough Whitlam’s 1974 gamble on a double dissolution election paid off for key legislation ...

Born in 1947, the child of refugees, Manne was “fascinated by small, apparently insignificant events that seemed to reveal ...

What does it take to be appointed as a cabinet secretary or other senior member of Donald Trump’s second administration? Expertise and experience in the pertinent area aren’t relevant: his choice as ...

A couple of years ago a friend asked me to select a poem to read at her wedding. She was marrying her beloved girlfriend and there was no way I was going to sully the occasion with a hetero standard.

Generous windows in the timber-framed entrance spill winter sun across a patterned floor. Light bounces off the glazed tiles lining the walls. Pendant lightfittings dangle from an extra-high ceiling.

Books & arts The journalist and the dictator Graeme Dobell 13 January 2025 Incensed by efforts to reinvent former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, a former foreign correspondent sets the record ...

Media Watch, ABC’s long-running scourge of shoddy journalistic practices, is back for another year with Linton Besser as its ...

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So when a new example of the genre (a dual biography by dual biographers, no less) sums up the story in six introductory ...