Among the many gems secreted in the Earle Page papers held by the National Library of Australia is the first-ever federal coalition agreement between a conservative rural party and a conservative ...

For once, the superlatives apply. It was a “shock”; it’s “stunning.” No one expected this. At time of writing, across the 111 electorates with (incomplete) two-party-preferred counts, the Australian ...

Much has been made in recent weeks of the signs of unrest among two pieces of Syria’s ethnic and confessional mosaic. Commentators in the West have pounced on recent violent clashes between government ...

The numbers from the 2025 election are not yet final — as I write this, the AEC has counted just over 75 per cent of votes — but we do know that the pollsters’ figures all fell on the right side of ...

If you ask the internet how to kill a zombie, the website Zombiepedia advises that “nearly all zombie survivalists are in agreement that the destruction of the brain is the only surefire way… (though ...

The proportion of “disadvantaged” kids going to school with other disadvantaged kids (and advantaged with advantaged) in Australia is among the highest in the rich countries of the OECD. Coming on top ...

Most discussions I see about China these days are about US–China competition, or the question of whether China’s economy will reign supreme (my answer: probably yes, because it’s really big). But ...

Fifty years ago this a series of confrontations between groups of Aboriginal people and police at Laverton, on the western edge of Western Australia’s Great Victoria Desert, led to the arrest of large ...

National affairs Are the Liberals in danger of becoming the Kodak of Australian politics? Frank Bongiorno 4 May 2025 The party is taking a long time to understand its plight National affairs The ...

National affairs State of exception Peter Brent 25 March 2025 Taswegians tend to go their own way at national elections, and that can matter when the results are close International Not only did ...

Essays & reportage Staying in the room Hamish McDonald 21 October 2024 Can the “brainy and agile” Penny Wong counter the power of US-centric defence and security agencies?

The reason for this apparent incongruity must lie in the “OTH” group, and particularly the absence of Clive Palmer’s UAP ...