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Dynasty’s end?
Michael Barr
7 May 2024
Singapore faces a future without a Lee
Correspondents
Down the drain
Michael Jacobs
4 May 2024
As raw sewage gushes into the Thames and voters turn away in droves, Rishi Sunak’s government enters its doomed home stretch
National Affairs
For whom the pendulum swings
Peter Brent
3 May 2024
The job of Liberal leader once swung from the party’s left to its right. But a lot has changed in recent years
Books & Arts
The case for banning billionaires
Peter Mares
29 April 2024
Should there be a limit on how rich you can be?
National Affairs
Think-tanked
Hamish McDonald
22 April 2024
As a China-watching think tank winds up after Morrison-era cuts, a respected analyst reviews government funding for security-related research and education
National Affairs
Electoral shadows
Paul Rodan
17 April 2024
Past election results offer good news and bad for the federal government
Books & Arts
The legendary King O’Malley
Ken Haley
10 April 2024
“Father of the Commonwealth Bank,” promoter of the national capital, North American émigré — King O’Malley created his own history
Books & Arts
The end of the future
Frank Yuan
8 April 2024
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek engages with “pre-apocalyptic” times
Books & Arts
Sealing the deal
Paul Rodan
4 April 2024
The National Party senator who campaigned against the far-right League of Rights exposes his strengths and weaknesses
International
Not quite a marriage made in heaven
Rodney Tiffen
2 April 2024
Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump have had their ups and downs, but it’s mainly been down since 2020
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
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
Books & Arts
Good cop, bad cop
Carol Johnson
20 March 2024
Successfully or not, Peter Dutton stands in a long line of paternalistic leaders
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
International
Mr Modi goes to Bollywood… and beyond
Robin Jeffrey
15 March 2024
How India’s filmmakers have tracked the national mood
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?
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?
Essays & Reportage
Ben Chifley’s pipe
Anne-Marie Condé
7 March 2024
A stalwart supporter of the Labor leader emerges from history’s shadows
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
Books & Arts
A dynamic of acceptance and revolt
Paul Gillen
27 February 2024
Why the extraordinary Jack Lindsay deserves to be better known
Books & Arts
“Am I the one who’s missing something?”
Nick Haslam
27 February 2024
A returned soldier’s belief in American virtue and progress is shaken
Working life
Back to the office: a solution in search of a problem
John Quiggin
23 February 2024
Managers need to recognise that the best way to dissipate authority is to fail in its exercise
National Affairs
How’s he travelling?
Peter Brent
22 February 2024
It depends on how you ask the question
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
Books & Arts
We’re not at war. We’re at work
Matthew Ricketson
14 February 2024
Former
Washington Post
editor Martin Baron reflects on Trump, Bezos and the challenges of journalism
International
Obama’a healthcare legacy
Lesley Russell
12 February 2024
The Affordable Care Act really is a big deal — but is it a winner for Joe Biden?
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
Books & Arts
The younger Menzies
Paul Rodan
6 February 2024
Australia’s longest-serving prime minister emerges sympathetically from the first two of a projected four-volume survey
Correspondents
“Never again”?
Klaus Neumann
6 February 2024
What’s behind the biggest protests in recent German history?
National Affairs
Gramsci’s message for Anthony Albanese
Frank Bongiorno
27 January 2024
How the government can build on what’s been a good month
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