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Grand days
Patrick Mullins
27 March 2024
James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s war never ended
Books & Arts
A fragment of a life
Susan Lever
28 March 2024
Charmian Clift’s most ambitious but unfinished work illuminates her childhood in coastal New South Wales
Books & Arts
John Glover, born-again artist in Tasmania
Jim Davidson
27 March 2024
Ron Radford shows how an elderly Englishman became the first notable white Australian landscape painter
Books & Arts
Emergency thinking
Klaus Neumann
25 March 2024
Two new biographies of Hannah Arendt couldn’t be more different. Our reviewer was captivated by one of them
Books & Arts
Born to laugh
Robert Phiddian
22 March 2024
Is British comedy pervaded by the worldview of the Oxbridge graduate?
Books & Arts
Good cop, bad cop
Carol Johnson
20 March 2024
Successfully or not, Peter Dutton stands in a long line of paternalistic leaders
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National Affairs
Shadow play
Tony Walker
21 March 2024
Both countries got what they wanted out of Wang Yi’s visit to Canberra
National Affairs
Spiky questions remain for AUKUS proponents
Sam Roggeveen
19 March 2024
There is an alternative, but the debate looks like taking some time to shift
National Affairs
Gap years
Michael Dillon
8 March 2024
Obfuscation and delay are blocking efforts to tackle Indigenous disadvantage
National Affairs
Dunkley’s Rorschach test
Peter Brent
1 March 2024
It’s the interpretation rather than the result that will have real-world effects
National Affairs
How’s he travelling?
Peter Brent
22 February 2024
It depends on how you ask the question
Essays & Reportage
Essays & Reportage
Unbeaching the whale: the book
Dean Ashenden
25 March 2024
A different kind of school reform is needed — reform of governance, the sector system and the daily work of students and teachers
Essays & Reportage
Olympic origins
Jock Given
20 March 2024
Queensland premier Steven Miles is learning an old lesson about sporting venues: sometimes it is best to love the ones you have
Essays & Reportage
Nuclear power, Newspoll and the nuances of polled opinion
Murray Goot
12 March 2024
Is the
Australian
’s polling and commentary doing the opposition any favours?
Essays & Reportage
Ben Chifley’s pipe
Anne-Marie Condé
7 March 2024
A stalwart supporter of the Labor leader emerges from history’s shadows
Essays & Reportage
Red flags
Ebony Nilsson
8 February 2024
Communist or not, postwar refugees from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe attracted the attention of Australia’s security services
Books & Arts
Books & Arts
The father of “soft power”
Graeme Dobell
28 March 2024
An eighty-year retrospective from the American academic who changed the way nations attract and argue
Books & Arts
Soeharto’s Australian whisperer
Hamish McDonald
21 March 2024
How a former Jehovah’s Witness activist became a secret intermediary between the Indonesian leader and the West
Books & Arts
Virtual anxiety
Nick Haslam
18 March 2024
Jonathan Haidt probes the causes of young people’s mental distress with refreshing humility
Books & Arts
“An unfathomable, shapeshifting thing”
Zora Simic
13 March 2024
Writer Adele Dumont charts trichotillomania — compulsive hair-pulling — from the inside out
Books & Arts
The free market’s brilliant frontman
John Edwards
11 March 2024
Milton Friedman brought wit and energy to his self-appointed task, but how influential did he prove to be?
International
International
Mr Modi goes to Bollywood… and beyond
Robin Jeffrey
15 March 2024
How India’s filmmakers have tracked the national mood
International
Too little, too late
Tony Walker
11 March 2024
In the tortured history of America’s relationship with Israel there has scarcely been a more fraught moment
International
Prescient president
Mike Steketee
8 March 2024
On the Middle East, renewable energy, American power and much else, Jimmy Carter was ahead of his time
International
Russia’s war against Ukraine: a longer view
Mark Edele
22 February 2024
With the full-scale invasion entering its third year, the stakes remain high
International
Life and death in China’s rustbelt
Antonia Finnane
22 February 2024
How did this candid drama series make it past the censors?
Correspondents
Correspondents
The fragility of American democracy
Lesley Russell
22 March 2024
Sooner or later, both major parties will have to deal with Trumpism’s legacy, made worse by the problems inherent in America’s political system
Correspondents
Which way will independent voters jump?
Lesley Russell
15 March 2024
The real issues in the US presidential race have been swamped by the big news
Correspondents
Lord Salisbury’s message for the housing ombudsman
Peter Mares
20 February 2024
… and the housing ombudsman’s message for Australia
Correspondents
Jokowi’s high-wire succession
Liam Gammon
14 February 2024
Prabowo Subianto’s likely electoral hole-in-one this week holds risks not only for his enemies
Correspondents
Lost in the post
Peter Mares
12 February 2024
Britain’s Post Office scandal, kept alive by dogged journalism and a new drama series, still has a long way to run