The story of Elizabeth Macarthur, a driving force in early New South Wales, highlights some of the gaps in the story of colonial Australia, writes Michelle Scott Tucker ...

The question of how to exercise global governance without the United States now turns to the G20. Since it was founded in 1999, the group of the world’s largest economies (now twenty-one of them, ...

In The Shrouds, David Cronenberg meditates on grief, death, technology and the erotic allure of conspiracy ...

Kehlmann depicts choices made in the grimmest of circumstances, sometimes in the name of art. His central figure is G.W. (Georg Wilhelm) Pabst, the Austrian-born filmmaker probably best known for ...

Books & arts Empire of the southern seas Alessandro Antonello 27 May 2025 Australia is better seen as a vast archipelago, according to a new exploration of its iciest reaches ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

It is salutary to turn on the television on the morning after the biggest landslide to the Labor Party since 1943 and the Liberal Party’s worst-ever election defeat. We must have had Sky on by the ...

Inside Story is an independent, non-profit magazine featuring analysis, commentary and reporting by leading writers and researchers from Australia and beyond. Editor: Peter Browne Contributing editor: ...

Across the southeast of the continent now known as Australia, the recent bushfire season provoked a surge in interest in Aboriginal peoples’ fire practices and knowledge. These practices are often ...

For well over a decade, Australian policy-makers, journalists and commentators have been absorbed by the question of whether governments have the capacity for significant reform. Can they deliver the ...

If we have learned one thing from the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s that radically different ways of doing things are possible, and many of them are improvements on what we had before. Whatever happens to ...

Post-election, South Africa’s biggest party can only govern with the help of uncomfortable bedfellows. How did it come to this?