In cricket-mad Australia, when did watching the Test become a civic duty? From the MCG to writers’ festivals, shared ...

Writers’ festivals present themselves as arenas of ideas, yet the range of disagreement on offer can be surprisingly narrow.

After the Bondi massacre, Parliament briefly found moral clarity, then lost it in haste and distrust. Rushed antisemitism laws exposed constitutional risk and procedural decay. Can a Royal Commission ...

Across Iran, a rare nationwide uprising driven by economic collapse and political exhaustion has been met with mass killings, ...

Australia Day is meant to unite the nation, yet increasingly exposes its fractures and injustices. After the Bondi murders, we must consider what binds Australians together, and what must change if ...

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Robert Manne, A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars, Latrobe University Press with Black Inc In my youth I was puzzled why so many older people devoured ...

I first met Frank Brennan almost 20 years ago, when I was in Australia as a part of an international Jesuit formation program. I had no idea who he was, the work he’d done over many decades with First ...

Like clockwork, news organisations run stories a few times a year about falling teaching standards in schools. Then there are the debates among academics, teachers and parents about the best methods – ...

Approaching Reconciliation Week (27 May – 3 June) with the theme Bridging Now to Next, the nation is aware that there is still unfinished business on the national agenda when it comes to the due ...

President Trump’s second term in office has been tumultuous. The global disruptor in-chief, abetted by Elon Musk, has commenced what could only be described as a chaotic shake-up of international ...

The release of DeepSeek’s new artificial intelligence model has shaken assumptions about the dominance of US tech giants. Amid stock crashes, claims of IP breaches and talk of a ‘Sputnik moment’, a ...