Almost every presidential election since 1980 has had a double-digit gender gap. What do the polls suggest about next week’s?

I write this on my return from Carlton’s Cinema Nova, where Paul Barclay, presenter of Radio National’s Big Ideas, was discussing a recently published memoir, A Season of Death, with Michelle Lesh and ...

Reading the well-known English satirist Craig Brown’s latest book, A Voyage around the Queen, I’m struck again by how, in terms of symbolic theatre, republics pale beside the multifaceted events and ...

Books & arts Tomorrow’s women Barbara Keys 10 September 2024 How ten Australian women made lives in the country that epitomised modernity ...

Triple-tested in its own kitchen, the Women’s Weekly’s recipes helped shape Australian tastes. But it had its rivals ...

The fascinating story of how two new books — Sandhill Girl and Enlightened Aboriginal Futures — came into being centres on three people: the Lutheran missionary F.W. Albrecht, his former student Lorna ...

Essays & reportage Lifting the shadow Anne-Marie Condé 29 March 2023 What constitutes “evidence” of a queer life?

We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant political parties a few months before September’s presidential election.

The standoff between the federal government and the states is nominally a part of negotiations over a new National School Reform Agreement. In reality, these are not negotiations, nor are they ...

Between 1978 and 2012 China achieved the longest period of sustained rapid economic growth in recorded history. Growing at an average annual rate of 10.0 per cent (as measured by real GDP) it went ...