Her first, Our Sandhill Country, had appeared in 1933 just as curiosity was building among Australians wanting to learn more ...

Whether it was intended or not, the latest book by the accomplished Australian journalist and author George Megalogenis was published not long after census night last month. As I thumbed through my ...

Language watchers will have noticed the rise of therapy-speak. Boundaries must be maintained, space must be held, gaslighting must be called out, and triggers, traumas and diagnostic terms abound. The ...

Mentioning Australia’s history of literary censorship to people of a younger vintage often causes befuddlement followed by amazement. In its heyday, our censorship system was a nation-building ...

In the beginning, there was a moment when Alexander Downer’s term as foreign minister could have been a mere blip, as short as his leadership of the Liberal Party. Instead of nearly a dozen years as ...

Books & arts All the lonely people Nick Haslam 8 September 2025 A Nordic writer foregrounds the social and political causes of loneliness Books & arts Speak, memory Nick Haslam 5 September 2024 Gideon ...

Essays & reportage George Johnston’s odyssey of war and peace Paul Genoni & Tanya Dalziell 30 July 2025 Eighty years ago, with the Pacific war drawing to a close, the celebrated war correspondent set ...

Nations are built with pens and brushes not just hammers and nails. They exhibit their character in what they say about themselves as much as what is said about them. — Bruce Pascoe, Convincing Ground ...

During their train journey from the Sydney docks to internment in Hay in 1940, a group of Dunera boys witnessed an incident that would be recounted more than once to the authors of this book. A ...

One of Mao Zedong’s best-known remarks — that power grows from the barrel of a gun — helps explain why the People’s Liberation Army is the military wing of the Chinese Communist Party rather than of ...

TO SEE whether you care about inequality, take this simple test. Would you prefer to be born into a society in which the bottom fifth of households had 1 per cent and the top fifth had 62 per cent of ...