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 ...

Michael Young deserves to be remembered for many things but is in fact remembered for just one: he was author of that extraordinary book, The Rise of the Meritocracy. Published nearly seventy years ...

On the surface, Singapore gleams. It’s wealthy, orderly, safe. The trains (generally) run on time, the amenities are plentiful, and the tiny city-state punches above its weight in international ...

A few months ago, when I was in the middle of a dispiriting time wrestling with words and seriously questioning my professional choices, my friend Siobhán got in touch bearing unexpectedly good ...

A year ago, in the cabinet room, Australia’s most senior bureaucrat, Steven Kennedy, made some remarks that surprised a few people. Meeting with economy-wide leaders gathered in Canberra for treasurer ...

Angus Taylor says changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount have put housing into “freefall,” blaming Labor’s “toxic taxes” for “a collapse in the housing market.” His comments ...