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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Anyone who has followed Logan Wright’s work in recent years won’t be surprised to learn that he believes China’s sclerotic financial arteries make likely a long period of low growth. Essentially, ...

A lot of controversy surrounded last month’s release of the Democratic National Committee’s “autopsy” of the party’s defeat in the 2024 election. The current DNC chair promised to release it when he ...

When the British ambassador George Macartney went to Beijing in 1793 with gifts of clocks, cannons, swords, woollen blankets and other British wares in the hope of creating the conditions for a ...

In November 1969 the Australian journalist Francis James failed to return home to Sydney from Hong Kong, his last scheduled stop on an extended overseas trip. On both his outward and return journeys ...

“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 ...

If voting patterns at the Farrer by-election and the SA state election are replicated, the 2028 federal election might be a run-off between two political parties founded in Queensland, one by men in ...