Our company is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values,” says Rupert Murdoch. It’s not an edifying sight ...

There’s no standard formula for becoming a prime minister, let alone being good at it. Some people seem destined to rise, propelled by a commanding presence, a mellifluous voice, agreeable bone ...

All the same, Hanson more or less held it together during her haltingly read text. Australia is “predominantly a ...

Martin explores these women’s views of their own sexuality, living as they did in times when lesbian relationships were not openly acknowledged, and brings their lives and their loves to light with ...

If a federal Liberal or Nationals leader had delivered Pauline Hanson’s Press Club speech on Wednesday and given the same answers to journalists’ questions, you might have declared them stark raving ...

For reasons relating to the terms and conditions of the public service, ingrained habits of reticence or the uncertainties of ...

“I cannot live with You —” goes Emily Dickinson’s poem. “It would be Life —/ And Life is over there —/ Behind the Shelf.” Once upon a time many Australian homes had the books of Patrick White out ...

There’s no mystery about the strong sales of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu and its sequel for younger readers, Young Dark Emu: A Truer History. They have helped articulate a desire among non-Indigenous ...

“One Nation surges ahead of Labor as budget flops,” said the Australian Financial Review’s headline on Monday, and it was mostly correct. The bit about the budget is old news and entirely true. But it ...

From Port Moresby’s founding early last century — when it was little more than a dozen corrugated iron shacks, a tennis court and McCrann’s tin-shed tavern — to the sprawling city it is today, Papua ...

In recent years, as a historian of Australia, I’ve found that the book people most wanted to talk to me about is Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu. Many readers speak of it with a sense of astonishment and ...

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 ...