‘Devastating’: Why the Liberals are preferencing One Nation
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Under Peter Dutton’s leadership, the Coalition has placed One Nation candidates second on scor...
Adam Bandt’s plans for the next parliament
28 Apr 2025
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If things go the Greens’ way this weekend, the party could hold the balance of power in a mino...
The seats that will decide the election
27 Apr 2025
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As we head to the polls this weekend, election analyst Ben Raue has been calculating the path to vic...
Read This: Chris Flynn’s New Book Arrived in a Dream
26 Apr 2025
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The opening scene of Chris Flynn’s fourth and latest novel, Orpheus Nine, came to him in ...
How the Pope’s death changed the election campaign
25 Apr 2025
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Paul Bongiorno is one of the 1.2 billion Roman Catholics who mourned the loss of Pope Francis this w...
From Trump’s America to Queensland: The people fighting back against trans healthcare bans
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In January, Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting the trans community by banning some med...
Bri Lee on the Liberal Party’s problem with women
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Scott Morrison lost his job as prime minister, it was women who sacked him. A review commission...
Labor vs the Coalition: Which housing plan is worse?
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Peter Dutton’s son, Harry, fronted the media to talk about his dream of home ownership, i...
Saul Griffith on how the major parties could get to net zero
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a coastal corner of Australia, scientist Saul Griffith has been quietly working away on a plan to...
Why asylum seekers are barred from Australian universities
20 Apr 2025
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As a child refugee in India, Harini dreamt of making it to Australia to study medicine and become a ...
Read This: The Imaginary Village of Niall Williams
19 Apr 2025
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Over four decades Niall Williams has made a name for himself as one of Ireland’s leading novel...
What the major parties are offering on Indigenous affairs
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At one point during this term of government, Indigenous affairs dominated national debate. Politicia...
This castle is tax deductible
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, reporter Mike Seccombe looked into the divide between Australia’s richest and poore...
Albanese v Dutton: The second leaders’ debate
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last night, Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton went head-to-head in the second leaders’ debate ...
How Albanese is using Trump as a weapon
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump’s presence looms large on the campaign trail, as both leaders face questions abou...
Protecting the ABC from Dutton
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In January, Jonathan Holmes met with the ABC’s then managing director, David Anderson. J...
Tim Flannery on the Coalition’s energy plan
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a scientist, Tim Flannery says he’s seen climate change kicked around parliament for decade...
Read This: Nothing Happens In Ayşegül Savaş’s Book and That’s Great
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Turkish-born, Paris-based writer Ayşegül Savaş’s third novel opens with a young, ex-pat...
How big should Australia be?
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Dutton says he’ll cut migrant numbers by 100,000 people a year as soon as he gets into o...
Why Elon Musk doesn’t want NASA to go to the moon
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk is pressing NASA to abandon its planned journeys to the moon – projects that have be...
Elon Musk’s plan to take over NASA
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump wants to write the next chapter in US spaceflight history. With billionaire tech CEO an...
Albanese v Dutton: The first leaders’ debate
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Albanese won the first leaders debate of the election campaign last night. But it was a tigh...
‘They’re panicking’: Why Dutton reneged on job cuts and work from home
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We made a mistake” are tough words for any politician, but in the heat of an election c...
How Trump's mass deportations targeted men with tattoos
06 Apr 2025
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It looked like a scene from a very different period of history: US Secretary of Homeland Security, K...
Read This: The Long Ireland of Colm Tóibín
05 Apr 2025
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Colm Tóibín is regarded as one of Ireland’s greatest authors — and for goo...
Albanese v Dutton: Who won week one?
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s only been a week, but the election campaign is already off script. Trump’s ta...
Ruby Jones on the government’s plan to demolish public housing
03 Apr 2025
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Barry Berih has lived in the same Melbourne flat for most of his life. He has mild cerebral palsy an...
The $11 billion warship decision testing Australia’s alliances
02 Apr 2025
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Australian defence officials are preparing to choose whether to buy warships from Germany or Japan. ...
The Mar-a-Lago accord: The real reason Trump wants tariffs
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today in the White House Rose Garden, President Trump will unveil his next round of tariffs – ...
Amy Remeikis on what the election should be about
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the federal election campaign kicked off over the weekend, chief political analyst at the Austral...
The real impact of Trump's cuts to Australian research
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In recent weeks, Australian researchers began receiving a questionnaire. Sent by the US government, ...
Read This: Zanzibar Is Still Home for Abdulrazak Gurnah
29 Mar 2025
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Tanzanian-born, London-based author Abdulrazak Gurnah was midway through writing his latest novel, T...
Albanese v Dutton: What's at stake on May 3
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his press conference announcing the May 3 federal election, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said ...
Peter Dutton and the billionaires
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While Peter Dutton’s electorate braced for Cyclone Alfred, the opposition leader flew to Sydne...
The tabloid panic rewriting bail laws
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Traditionally, the idea of bail meant that someone accused of a crime had the right to be free until...
The election budget: What's in it for you?
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Chalmers has handed down the Labor government’s election budget. Front and centre was a su...
The end of the Gaza ceasefire
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ceasefire in Gaza collapsed a week ago as Israel launched a series of airstrikes. Since then, mo...
‘The gangsters have gone f*cking nowhere’: The failed clean up of the CFMEU
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When footage of a CFMEU “health inspector” assaulting a woman was made public last week,...
Read This: Robert Dessaix Is a Fox (Not a Hedgehog)
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tasmanian writer Robert Dessaix is a man of many talents when it comes to the written form – f...
‘If I was on the Labor side of politics, I'd be worried’
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kos Samaras spends hundreds of hours listening to what voters really think. In focus groups and in s...
China, Australia and the warships off our coast
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past month, a flotilla of Chinese military ships came close to Australian shores unannounce...
The Catholic Church’s legal loophole for abuse
19 Mar 2025
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Are Catholic priests employed by the Church, or by the hand of God? This question was at the heart o...
‘Frankly terrifying’: Albanese’s secret climate report
18 Mar 2025
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In December last year, a group of crossbenchers dialled into a secret call with the Albanese governm...
Peter Dutton and the caravan of explosives
17 Mar 2025
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The discovery of an abandoned caravan full of explosives on the outskirts of Sydney earlier this yea...
Part 2: What happens to America if DOGE succeeds
16 Mar 2025
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Donald Trump’s full-throated support of Elon Musk continues, despite more and more people ques...
Part 1: Inside Elon Musk's takeover of the US government
16 Mar 2025
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Acolytes of Elon Musk, working in the Department of Government Efficiency, are currently gutting the...
Read This: How Sonia Orchard Reclaimed Her Story
15 Mar 2025
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Novelist Sonia Orchard was in her 40s when a revelation during a therapy session turned her life ups...
How Chinese voters will shape the election
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australia’s Chinese community proved to be a powerful voting bloc in the last election. ...
The real impact of Trump’s tariffs on Australia
13 Mar 2025
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Donald Trump’s trade war is escalating, as his wide-ranging tariffs take effect. Austral...
Falsified deaths: The systemic problems in Tasmanian hospitals
12 Mar 2025
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When Launceston nurse and midwife Amanda Duncan appeared at a Tasmanian parliamentary inquiry into a...
Peter Dutton, Donald Trump Jr and the Australian weapons mogul
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Trump’s radical reshaping of the US pulls into focus, so too has the list of those who have...
Trapped in a Cambodian scam factory
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most Australians have been targeted by a scam attempt, from spam text messages to intricate love fra...
Julie Bishop and the mine that could ruin Greenland
09 Mar 2025
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Julie Bishop built her career as a politician representing Australia on the world stage. Now, ...
Read This: Andrea Goldsmith Finds the Poetry In Death
08 Mar 2025
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In Andrea Goldsmith’s ninth and latest novel, The Buried Life, she unpicks the relationsh...
Cyclone politics
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cyclone Alfred hits as we gear up for the federal election, bringing back memories of the floods and...
Patricia Karvelas’ guide to saving democracy
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australia is heading into a federal election at a time when trust in politics and our institutions i...
The killing of Natan Mwanza
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One evening, two weeks ago, Natan Mwanza was stabbed and killed at a bus stop in Melbourne’s s...
'Unfettered power': Former ambassador on rethinking the US-Australia alliance
04 Mar 2025
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When Arthur Sinodinos arrived in Washington as Australia’s ambassador to the United States in ...
What Russia is promising Trump
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with US President Donald Trump and Vice President J....
A bizarre and frankly gross thing happening
02 Mar 2025
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Warmer waters, disease and antibiotics have pushed Tasmania’s salmon farms into crisis. But it...
Read This: Sean Wilson Pulls Back the Curtain on Dementia
01 Mar 2025
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In Melbourne-based author Sean Wilson’s new book, You Must Remember This, he tackles the ...
Geraldine Brooks on Anthony Albanese's legacy
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was just before Christmas when Geraldine Brooks sat down for the first in a series of conversatio...
A phone call from Tony Burke and the sacking of Venice Biennale artist Khaled Sabsabi
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the country’s peak arts body, Creative Australia, decided to dump Australia’s repre...
Exclusive: Ten dead after welfare glitch ignored by government
25 Feb 2025
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It was 2020 when the government first discovered that a glitch in its system was wrongfully cutting&...
Malarndirri McCarthy on closing the gap
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The results in the latest Closing the Gap report are grim. Only five of the 19 targets are on track,...
Part 1: James and Rupert Murdoch’s ‘bitter meltdown’
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, one of the world’s most powerful families converged in a Nevada court room to fight...
Part 2: The fall of the Murdoch empire
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the cardinal Murdoch family rules is never speak about the family outside the family. So, whe...
Read This: Alex Miller Finally Lets His Friend Die
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two time Miles Franklin Award-winning author Alex Miller is 88, but with 17 books under his belt and...
Saturday special: Albanese's election plans
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In news rooms, board rooms and electoral offices around the country, there's one question driving ev...
Sabotage, surveillance and state-sponsored killings: ASIO's warning
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australia faces its most “difficult threat environment” in 50 years, with larger and mor...
RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine obsession
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s confirmation as US health secretary made official one of President Dona...
Can the government claim a win from the RBA cut?
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday afternoon, the Reserve Bank cut the official cash rate to 4.1 per cent. It’s the fi...
Inside the ‘hostile takeover’ of Meals on Wheels
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meals on Wheels is an essential service for many elderly people across the country. It’s...
How Bob Brown stays optimistic
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Bob Brown spoke out against the invasion of Iraq in 2003, at the height of the war on terror, h...
Read This: The Real Rachel Khong
15 Feb 2025
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In 2017, Rachel Khong released her debut novel Goodbye, Vitamin to critical acclaim. In 20...
Why SAS troops used wrong rules of engagement
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Brereton inquiry uncovered shocking allegations of war crimes committed by Australian soldiers i...
Lidia Thorpe: ‘We need to scrap Closing the Gap’
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told parliament it must face up to the fact only five of ...
Trump threatens Australian medical research
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since taking office, US President Donald Trump has thrown American science and medical research into...
Kara Swisher has known Elon Musk for decades - she saw this coming
10 Feb 2025
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Veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher has reported on Elon Musk for decades. In that time, they&rsquo...
Inside Labor’s plan to fight tariffs
09 Feb 2025
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Australia is a small player in global trade, compared with giants like the US and China. And when th...
Read This: This Is Not Michelle de Kretser
08 Feb 2025
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Two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author Michelle de Kretser has never been afraid of formal exp...
Parliament is back. Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Dutton is making a bold move – aligning himself with Donald Trump. Dutton’s collea...
Trump’s plan to ‘own’ Gaza
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump said the United S...
Who are Australia’s biggest political donors?
04 Feb 2025
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Tens of millions of dollars in “dark” donations to political parties have renewed calls ...
After DeepSeek: How China outsmarted America
03 Feb 2025
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The arrival of DeepSeek wiped more than $1 trillion off the value of America’s tech firms, top...
Read This: The Tangled Branches of Lech Blaine’s Family Tree
01 Feb 2025
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Lech Blaine’s debut book Car Crash, told the gripping story of his life in the aftermath ...
The people importing Trump's anti-trans tactics to Australia
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump returned to the White House with a campaign that routinely attacked trans gender people...
Serco’s ugly legacy in Australia’s immigration detention system
29 Jan 2025
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The company that’s run Australia’s immigration detention network for over a decade, Brit...
Grace Tame on improving the lives of autistic Australians
28 Jan 2025
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As a child, Grace Tame often felt isolated and misunderstood, a feeling later explained by her autis...
Paul Barry on the billionaire who failed Whyalla
27 Jan 2025
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In 2017, the billionaire businessman Sanjeev Gupta rescued the Whyalla steelworks from administratio...
Marcia Langton doesn't want Peter Dutton to stand in front of the Aboriginal flag
26 Jan 2025
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Peter Dutton’s announcement last month that he won’t stand in front of the Aboriginal fl...
Read This: An Evening with Alan Hollinghurst
25 Jan 2025
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Best known for his thought-provoking explorations of sexuality and identity across generations, Brit...
Burnt mansions: Why the next election is a fork in the road
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As wildfires tore through some of LA’s most affluent neighbourhoods, burning down mansions own...
Peter Dutton’s plan to win back teal seats
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Scott Morrison’s government was swept from power in 2022 it was the Coalition’s wor...
Trump’s plan to make billions off cryptocurrency
21 Jan 2025
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Just three days before his inauguration, US President Donald Trump announced a new venture into cryp...
The doping scandals overshadowing the Australian Open
20 Jan 2025
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Jannik Sinner is currently defending his title as the world’s best male tennis player at the A...
'Everyone wants to be my friend': The people paying millions for access to Trump
19 Jan 2025
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Donald Trump will be president again by tomorrow, and he says “everybody” wants to be hi...
Read This: Noni Hazlehurst Is Being Herself
18 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For so many, Noni Hazlehurst is the patron saint of early childhood nostalgia, known for her magneti...
Ex-Pentagon official on the Israel-Hamas ceasefire
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Sunday, Israel and Hamas are due to start a 42-day ceasefire in Gaza as part of a deal that cou...
Why children are being kicked off the NDIS
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Outgoing Labor minister Bill Shorten has said he’s leaving politics at the end of the month co...