The Chinese-owned video platform has become the largest source of news for Australians under twenty-five. Now Donald Trump wants it run in America by the Murdochs and other friendly plutocrats ...

One Nation is surging in the opinion polls. By the party’s recent standards that is, and by recent Australian standards to be exact. Back in 1998, One Nation 1.0 enjoyed similar surveyed support for a ...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another seems to take place in a continuous present, even though there is a sixteen-year gap between the opening scenes and the latter part of the film.

“The whole issue is so complex. And there’s so many layers to it, because we’ve got serving police officers accepting money from a newspaper, people at the very top of the police being closely ...

National affairs On parade in a new age of wars Graeme Dobell 19 June 2025 As Iran and Israel wage war, big military parades are held in the United States and Britain Books & arts The journalist and ...

National affairs Officer-induced jeopardy Karen Middleton 11 July 2025 The NT coroner spells out the long series of events that led to Kumanjayi Walker’s death ...

Books & arts A dose of reality for the “realists” Mark Edele 12 August 2025 Zbigniew Brzezinski came to resist the great-power thinking that would later play out so tragically in Ukraine ...

Other Voices Bodies by Joe Alma Guillermoprieto 20 August 2025 With his strange machines and uncanny understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created an entirely new technique ...

America’s domestic weaknesses only serve to convince China, America’s main rival, that the age of democracy is on the wane. Trump’s re-election in November 2024 constitutes a confirmation, if not an ...

When Russian drones entered Poland on the night of 9–10 September, I was across the border in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. As has happened so often since February 2022, sirens had warned of incoming ...

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, ...

Nations are built with pens and brushes not just hammers and nails. They exhibit their character in what they say about themselves as much as what is said about them. — Bruce Pascoe, Convincing Ground ...