The safety or vulnerability of seats might vary because of the strength or weakness of local members, the presence of a particular industry or of local “discontent,” demographic changes since the last ...

Dutton’s strategy of ignoring the inner-city seats in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth that the Liberals lost to teal or Greens candidates will have been vindicated — if not wholly then in large part. The ...

In writing about Joan Lindsay nee à Beckett Weigell, a cousin of Martin Boyd, Niall uses her knowledge of Melbourne’s wealthy ...

Essays & reportage Angels and demons Mark Baker 8 August 2024 The military hierarchy took a dim view of aircrew traumatised by their experiences over Nazi Germany ...

An organisation set up to distribute academic research to teachers gets off on the wrong foot, and stays there ...

As the late poet’s sister Josie McSkimming aptly puts it, Porter was that “unicorn” in Australian literature — a successful poet. On any random page of a Porter poetry collection or verse novel the ...

Early in A Political Memoir, as Robert Manne evokes how “the post-Enlightenment dream of Germany as a home for Jews” so completely corrupted around his maternal grandparents in the 1930s, comes a ...

What does it take to be appointed as a cabinet secretary or other senior member of Donald Trump’s second administration? Expertise and experience in the pertinent area aren’t relevant: his choice as ...

Generous windows in the timber-framed entrance spill winter sun across a patterned floor. Light bounces off the glazed tiles lining the walls. Pendant lightfittings dangle from an extra-high ceiling.

Books & arts The journalist and the dictator Graeme Dobell 13 January 2025 Incensed by efforts to reinvent former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, a former foreign correspondent sets the record ...

Media Watch, ABC’s long-running scourge of shoddy journalistic practices, is back for another year with Linton Besser as its ...