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 ...

An evolving monument of Australian foreign policy has reached its thirteenth volume. Now covering the seven decades from 1950 to 2020, Australia in World Affairs is sustained and shepherded by the ...

One recent summer’s afternoon my wife and I were finishing a picnic with friends overlooking the North Saskatchewan River, with the prairie stretching out to the horizon in all directions. Our host ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nic Maclellan, a correspondent for Islands Business magazine and other regional media, is Inside Story ’s Pacific affairs correspondent.

National affairs The Senate’s status seekers Karen Middleton 30 May 2025 Having lost Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to the Liberals, the National Party has tried to entice at least one senator from the ...

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 ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

The story of Elizabeth Macarthur, a driving force in early New South Wales, highlights some of the gaps in the story of colonial Australia, writes Michelle Scott Tucker ...

The question of how to exercise global governance without the United States now turns to the G20. Since it was founded in 1999, the group of the world’s largest economies (now twenty-one of them, ...