The High Court thinks establishing citizenship is straightforward. Jeremy Gans thinks otherwise

Limiting our attention to short-term workforce needs ignores a much bigger conversation about what it will take for regional Australia to thrive in the future.

Crikey speaks to top Australian political journalists, executives and The New Yorker's Susan Glasser about politicians' assault on the free press — and the lack of collective resistance against it.

The long-awaited plan includes cutting net overseas migration by two thirds and a crackdown on visa-hopping, but it’s all built on shaky foundations.

A kind of dread hangs over the state as the November election approaches

One Nation’s rise is often treated as cultural anger. New data point to something more concrete: poor health, financial insecurity and communities left without the services that make life work.

Who needs help, where and why. The index will guide governments and business how to navigate through that challenge.

Big means high migration; small means modest migration. It is a political and economic choice, one that needs to be actively made, not sidestepped and left to its own devices.

The RBA has lifted rates to 4.6 per cent, concentrating much of the pain of fighting inflation on younger households with mortgages. A tighter budget could spread the burden more fairly, but serious s...

The Alexandria-born British historian, raised in prewar Vienna and Berlin, straddled the decades like a colossus

The highs and lows of Australia’s immigration history

As New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield writes, staff cartoonists used to be the only ones in the building paid to point at the building. Everyone else eventually answers to the owner, but they…

Xi Jinping’s Washington visit was more than ceremony and trade deals. The US and China are building a more stable relationship around regular summitry, negotiated differences and mutual recognition of...

A self-described ‘platypoditudinarian’, Burrell figured out how to keep these animals in captivity – which allowed them to be studied.

One hundred years ago Don Dunstan was born and 50 years ago, in October 1976, the then South Australian premier published a cookbook. It sounds like a charming eccentricity of the era. It was actually...

Housing costs, falling living standards and distrust of politicians are driving deep frustration among voters. Yet immigration dominates the national debate, obscuring the economic pressures behind th...

And it's never really about culture or "assimilation", although we continue to pretend otherwise.

The office of prime minister is not mentioned anywhere in the Australian constitution. Its existence, eligibility and function are governed by convention, not law.

If the government was smart, the soaring cost of government debt would be used to show voters that Labor can sensibly manage the economy, while One Nation and the Coalition chase populist stupidity.

One Nation’s super-for-housing plan offers immediate relief, but risks repeating a message its new midlife voters know well: solve the problem with your own money.

Grand Ambition: Paul Keating’s Global Vision for Australia is based on deep archival research – and author James Curran’s access to Keating, with his personal papers.

Pressure follows revelations US military and weapons manufacturers control or have access to more than 100 bases across Australian continent

The death of Dutch migrant Dick Van Teulingen at 101 closes a chapter in Australia’s post-war migration story, shaped by those who left war-torn Europe to build new lives here.

The profound implications of population and workplace changes have eluded the major parties, says George Megalogenis

Asylum seeker policy showed toughness in one small, but highly visible, part of the system while creating room to loosen policy everywhere else.

Peter Wilenski helped reshape Australia’s public service, championing responsiveness, equality and openness. But his rejection of political neutrality left a more complicated legacy for public adminis...

Speechwriter Don Watson’s insider account of the prime minister he worked for, written ‘in tragic mode’, was an instant bestseller – but Keating famously hated it.

A new book on Paul Keating's foreign policy shows that the preoccupations of the 1990s remain deeply resonant for contemporary Australia — which has demonstrably shrunk in its ambitions since then.

By its final block, the commission had heard from more than 300 witnesses and received more than 20,000 submissions. The evidence paints a concerning picture.

Australia’s Asian-language capability has declined for decades, weakening our ability to understand and engage with our neighbours. Labor’s new language program may make a difference.

You can set your watch to Australia's cycle of migration panic. But the real issue is that this country has built an economic model that needs migrants and a political model that needs them blamed.

Indiscriminate carnage has followed Australian National University over the past few years. Will a former APS commissioner be able to clear up the mess?

Australia’s post-COVID migration surge is receding, but it exposed deep weaknesses in the temporary visa system. Restoring public confidence requires better regulation, clearer pathways and less fixat...

One Nation is the Australian political Babadook. Both parties are jumping at its shadow and using it in their own policies and rhetoric.

Even its admirers get The Rise of the Meritocracy wrong

The idea of weighting voting by age so as to give younger people more say in the decisions that will affect them would improve our democracy. Here's why.

A new biography presents a complex, sometimes confronting portrait of W.H. Auden

The policy problem of migration is a significant chance for us to secure prosperity in the coming decades.

Labor managed to dodge any drama at its national conference, partly thanks to a defensive relationship with the media. But with matters like AUKUS, dissent is waiting in the wings.

Garry Woodard was a distinguished Australian diplomat, historian and strategic analyst whose service, scholarship and independent judgment helped shape and record Australia’s engagement with Asia.

The prime minister's attendance at a mysterious fundraising dinner in Sydney won't be properly disclosed until next year. But that's not where the rot ends.

Veteran journalist Paul Kelly grapples with three prime ministers and the party they led

The rise of populism reflects unmet expectations about living standards, but the answer lies in restoring productivity growth rather than blaming inequality.