When the International Booker Prize committee awarded this year’s prize to Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue it continued a laudable tradition of diversity. In the eleven years since its relaunch in ...

Until 2011, any mention of a “carbon tax” invariably meant a consumption tax on specific goods. John Howard swore off a “carbon tax” before he lost government in 2007 but promised an “emissions ...

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See how patching operates with the World Trade Organization, the body designed to set the rules and judge the disputes of ...

Our company is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values,” says Rupert Murdoch. It’s not an edifying sight ...

If a federal Liberal or Nationals leader had delivered Pauline Hanson’s Press Club speech on Wednesday and given the same answers to journalists’ questions, you might have declared them stark raving ...

It’s not the first time it’s been suggested: forming a new party to represent socially progressive and economically conservative Australians, otherwise known as the many people who used to vote ...

“One Nation surges ahead of Labor as budget flops,” said the Australian Financial Review’s headline on Monday, and it was mostly correct. The bit about the budget is old news and entirely true. But it ...

Rarely does an epigraph accomplish its function so neatly as the one William Easterly has chosen to begin Violent Saviours, his audacious history of the West’s “we know best” attitude to the rest of ...

If voting patterns at the Farrer by-election and the SA state election are replicated, the 2028 federal election might be a run-off between two political parties founded in Queensland, one by men in ...

“Geopolitics” has made a comeback. The American historian Hal Brands defines it as “the study of how the physical features of the Earth interact with the struggle for influence and power.” It is, he ...