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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the risk of oversimplification, there are two Jewish responses to the current devastation in Palestine: the tribal and the humanist. Sadly we have witnessed many cases of the first, an eagerness to ...

Let me start with a couple of incidents that illustrate the great political puzzle we now face. Incident 1: On Thursday a number of tech billionaires had dinner with Donald Trump. They were ...

Francesca Wade’s elegant new biography, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, is composed in two parts: the first, a relatively conventional biography in which the events of Stein’s life are interwoven with ...

Back in April 2015 Tony Abbott’s environment minister, Greg Hunt, boasted of the “stunning success” of the first “auction” under his government’s Emissions Reduction Fund. The ERF was the centrepiece ...