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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

This year marks the two hundredth anniversary of the State Library of New South Wales, and to celebrate the library is offering a year-long program of events, exhibitions, performances, digital ...

Earlier this week Frank Bongiorno launched Inside Story contributor Patrick Mullins’s new book, The Stained Man, at Canberra’s Paperchain Bookshop. This is a lightly edited version of his speech… In ...

Driving a Sydney taxi one winter evening in 1987, I picked up a businessman in the CBD. He took me on a trip way out southwest to, perhaps, Liverpool, and at the end he paid the fare with Cabcharge ...