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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Outlining his government’s “positive and ambitious agenda” at the National Press Club last week, Anthony Albanese reiterated a series of health policy commitments made during the election campaign: ...

It takes something for a prime minister with a majority of 156 to contrive a parliamentary defeat. But that was Sir Keir Starmer’s singular achievement this week. Or it would have been, had he not ...

Gail Jones’s eleventh novel, The Name of the Sister, opens with a freelance journalist, Angie, watching a catalogue of miseries on the evening news. Her attention is caught by two successive items ...

A leaked transcript of a Liberal Women’s Council meeting highlights the challenges facing Sussan Ley over women’s representation ...

Apple, the world’s leading manufacturer, epitomises the futility of the US–China tariff wars. Having sailed close to the financial wind in its first iteration, Apple Computer Company (founded by two ...

But there’s something else to consider. Like its eponymous subject, a novel written by two sisters is, in its way, groundbreaking. But is it really a novel? When I started writing them, novels were ...

In their bestselling book Abundance American journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that rich countries can be much richer. Their citizens can be healthier, their environment more salubrious, ...