I wrote “ The Preservation of Pure Learning ” — my summing up of the state of Australian universities for Inside Story after more than a year of Covid-19 — from a cabin in a holiday park in Cudmirrah, ...

A thought-provoking (and entertaining) new book about revolutions doesn’t answer a question that has had our reviewer puzzled ...

Two new novels, one from Tasmania and the other from a South African writer, extend our understanding of empire and its consequences. Their settings are a century apart. Each is a hypothetical ...

Friendship is having a moment. Connoisseurs of illustrious children’s television shows like K-Pop Demon Hunters or Frozen will have noticed that Prince Charming has been usurped by Girl Gangs.

Diplomats spend their careers writing “cables” that report, record, recommend and instruct. This lifetime habit of writing has fed a minor Australian tradition of foreign affairs books by retired ...

When a determined and resourceful young man from Punjab — I’ll call him Hari — was driving me home recently, our conversation turned to his experiences and aspirations in Australia. He’d finished a ...

When I arranged to visit Mossmont Nurseries outside Griffith in the NSW Riverina, I pictured something like an expanded Bunnings garden centre. The reality is starkly different. In the words of ...

David Littleproud insists the continuing surge in One Nation’s surveyed support played “zero” part in his party’s decision to leave the federal Coalition (again), but the Nationals leader would say ...

The proceedings of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization don’t normally make headline news. (Except perhaps in Ocean Freight Times.) But the ...

Does Australia need more federal politicians? Special minister of state Don Farrell (and hence prime minister Anthony Albanese) seems to think so. Farrell included the idea in the terms of reference ...

It’s been forty years since Mark Aarons, an ABC reporter, broke the news that Nazi war criminals were living in peaceful obscurity in Australian suburbia. What followed was astonishing for a country ...