Over the past few years, though, I have watched versions of reckoning with China unfold across very different milieus, each shaped by a unique vantage point. For Kaiser’s generation of American ...

If the biggest political surprise in 2025 was the Albanese government’s emphatic re-election, the second has been the gradual surge in One Nation support since then. From a disappointing election ...

Sovereign is based on the true story of a deadly encounter between Jerry and Joseph Kane, a father and son, and West Memphis police officers in Arkansas. Swegal’s film concludes more or less where the ...

IN A SENSE, Oscar Manutahi Temaru lost the battle but won the war. Not long before he ended his term as president of French Polynesia this month, he achieved his long-held goal of increasing support ...

There was a time when the leadership of the Liberal opposition swung like a pendulum. Back and forth, left to right, right to left. In the 1980s, against the Hawke government, we had Andrew Peacock ...

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, ...

“I cannot live with You —” goes Emily Dickinson’s poem. “It would be Life —/ And Life is over there —/ Behind the Shelf.” Once upon a time many Australian homes had the books of Patrick White out ...

It is salutary to turn on the television on the morning after the biggest landslide to the Labor Party since 1943 and the Liberal Party’s worst-ever election defeat. We must have had Sky on by the ...

As we enter the second decade of the Australian debate about constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, one thing has become clear. The only viable way forward — as ...

On his way to Canberra airport recently, Rohan Greenland asked his cab driver to pull over. For anyone who knows Greenland — a public health advocate who likes to “walk the talk” — it will come as no ...

The Gonski review is history. The Gonski panel submitted its report in December 2011, and the government responded in February 2012. There have been two federal elections since then. It is timely to ...

Australian schooling lives within the comprehensive failure of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s “education revolution.” David Gonski’s proposals, by some margin the best of a bad lot, had only limited ...