Once Labor was the party with the strongest denominational links

A new research collection revisits an understudied facet of Australia’s political past

What does it take to be a great tennis player in an era when greatness has been recalibrated?

The Social Reckoning highlights what Facebook wants to bury while La Bola Negra explores three stories of hidden desire

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

The new British PM’s charismatic speech to Labour’s conference won over even the most jaded commentators. But will it be enough?

Sixty-three years later, the 7 Up series draws to a close

Sixty-three years later, the 7 Up series draws to a close

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

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

Are we to be neighbours or family in the Islands?

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

Sixty-three years later, the 7 Up series draws to a close

The new British PM’s charismatic speech to Labour’s conference won over even the most jaded commentators. But will it be enough?

Melbourne poet Lesbia Harford opted for a life of political activism

Although he was sometimes seen purely as a lyricist, words and music were inseparable in Stephen Sondheim’s art

The AI giants want the federal government to okay a backdoor way of seizing creative material from around the world

German democracy is in serious trouble. Does it need a Jürgen Klopp to fix it?

The AI giants want the federal government to okay a backdoor way of seizing creative material from around the world

How a Canadian judge took on the entrepreneurs selling pseudolaw

Although he was sometimes seen purely as a lyricist, words and music were inseparable in Stephen Sondheim’s art

“To become George Sand required will, imagination and chutzpah,” says the French writer’s latest biographer

Seeing an “elite” English boys’ school up close is only partially revealing

Democracy erodes from the top

Has a blazing summer changed public opinion about climate change — or shifted government thinking?

The federal government believes Australia can tap into the benefits of AI while coping with the pitfalls

The 1873 crash might not have created the modern world, but it does have a message for today

Alexander Downer, born politician, born of the Liberal Party

US foreign policy under Trump and beyond

The federal government believes Australia can tap into the benefits of AI while coping with the pitfalls

Even its admirers get The Rise of the Meritocracy wrong

What the Secret Harbour by-election does and doesn’t tell us

Donald Trump’s bullying continues to give Mark Carney enormous political latitude

In pursuit of the man who scammed his mother, a journalist finds a different kind of victim

The federal government believes Australia can tap into the benefits of AI while coping with the pitfalls

Even its admirers get The Rise of the Meritocracy wrong

Even its admirers get The Rise of the Meritocracy wrong

How did Cultural Marxism become the right’s all-purpose pejorative?

The prime minister is bucking the high-casualty trend among leaders

Victoria’s new premier should abandon the state’s sledgehammer approach to Melbourne’s public housing towers

J.D. Vance follows Hillbilly Elegy with a tale of religious revelation

J.D. Vance follows Hillbilly Elegy with a tale of religious revelation

An urgent plea to save linguistic diversity across the world

One Nation’s support remains surprising high, but the implications for the next election are less clear

What the numbers say about changing reading habits

Can a new premier turn around the Victorian government’s electoral fortunes?

Elon Musk “never lost sight of how the power to build and the power to rule were intertwined”

A reporter documents the good, the bad and the ugly of AI in the workplace