Books & arts One hell of a story Mark Baker 28 October 2025 Why write a book about the Battle of Shah Wali Kot, and why now?

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 ...

Other Voices Why do we still have so many radiologists? Noah Smith 17 October 2025 AI model-makers predicted a sharp dropoff in jobs. So far, reality is refusing to oblige ...

In the wake of the Port Arthur massacre in April 1996, newly elected prime minister John Howard worked with state and territory governments to implement tougher gun regulations. One of the strongest ...

National affairs The everyday threat of sovereign citizen pseudolaw Harry Hobbs & Stephen Young 29 August 2025 Behind the violence of its most extreme adherents is a web of groups active at the ...

Here, Haydon’s film is a point of flexion where a narrative of the passing race is confronted by one of resistance and revitalisation. Trukanini’s reburial campaign was a significant event for a new ...

A new album from the Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson is a journey up to, through and away from Beethoven’s piano sonata in E major, Op. 109, the music making, as we’ve come to expect from Ólafsson ...

Christian Swegal’s Sovereign (Amazon Prime) moves with quiet inevitability towards a terrible conclusion. Tense, difficult and deeply confronting, it is an emotionally precise film. This is tragedy ...

Leftist online personality Hasan Piker recently took a trip to China and — like many other influencers who have been there — declared it to be a paradise, praising “abundance-style consumption paired ...

The proceedings of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization don’t normally make headline news. (Except perhaps in Ocean Freight Times.) But the ...

Near the old Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney a stark slab of wall, angled outward from a glass background, houses a table and a leaning potato-digging spade known as a loy. The glass panels behind it are ...

The federal Coalition appears miles, light years, away from regaining office. It attracted a record low number of primary and two-party-preferred votes and seats in May. It is seriously split, with an ...