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 ...

There’s no standard formula for becoming a prime minister, let alone being good at it. Some people seem destined to rise, propelled by a commanding presence, a mellifluous voice, agreeable bone ...

Pauline Hanson’s address to the National Press Club was the talk of the town — well, of the town in which I live, Canberra, anyway — for a few days last week. But GetUp!’s banner stunt and Hanson’s ...

Politics has no pity. On Wednesday this week Keir Starmer was at the G7 Summit in the French Alps, discussing options to keep open the Strait of Hormuz with Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron and ...

Grief is disorienting. A dreadful recognition and a fantastical denial combine unnervingly. Its sheer physicality echoes the dying process. Time and space expand and contract, rendering familiar ...

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 ...

Sylvia Martin has brought out of the shadows a number of fascinating characters, women who have lived their lives with distinction and achievement without sufficient fanfare or public acclaim. My ...