Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal has brought to a head the media mogul’s uneasy relationship with Donald Trump ...

In his new collection of eight wide-ranging essays, the distinguished photographer Michael Collins makes a plea for the art of close observation. The viewer’s role is to look, not merely to glance and ...

Washington’s ambitions in the region aren’t going unopposed. Among the groups challenging the dominant narrative of the Micronesian islands as “the tip of the spear” for the US military in the western ...

Chris Bonnor is an education writer, speaker, advocate and former NSW principal. He has served as President of the NSW Secondary Principals’ Council and is author of The Stupid Country and What Makes ...

Books & arts Dropping out, burning out, tuning out Andrew Dean 27 June 2025 Nobody’s happy about the state of Australian universities, but a seasoned academic has some remedies ...

Few who sat down to hear Ken Henry speak about environment law this week would have been surprised by his blunt analysis. But they may not have expected the sharply plain-speaking former Treasury head ...

If you are old enough to remember ANZAAS congresses, you might be wondering what happened to them. The last one was held in Adelaide in 1997. ANZAAS lives on, still following its mission of promoting ...

The United States is slip-sliding towards authoritarianism under Donald Trump. Elected leaders in Israel, Turkey and Hungary have blurred the line between democracy and dictatorship. North Korean ...

This year the fourth of July marked more than the celebration of America’s Independence Day: it was the day Donald Trump signed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act (now referred to as OBBBA) into law.

Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts ...

The obituaries for former Treasury secretary and National Party senator John Stone — who died last week at the age of ninety-six — have so far focused on his thirty-year career as a public servant, ...

Melissa Conley Tyler is Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy & Defence Dialogue. Lanni Hamblin is a Policy and Advocacy Advisor at the Australian Council for International ...