Both hymns in praise of meritocracy and criticisms of schooling’s inadequate service have come first and loudest in the ...

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Australia’s vote on Gaza this week highlights a decades-long shift in the major parties’ attitudes towards Israel ...

Kevin Rudd sees a clear line between the Chinese president’s worldview and his country’s path. But is it as simple as that?

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To remain aloof from the group while honouring one’s organic ties to it; to exist between loneliness and alignment, remaining always a bit of a stranger; to resist the resolution of the narrative, the ...

Great Australians brought freshly researched history by fine writers and historians to a generation of Australians ...

After a distinguished career in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Geoff Raby has become a consultant and widely ...

In the wake of Joe Biden’s narrow victory in 2020 and the abortive Trump insurrection that followed, one important fact stood out for Marcy Kaptur, a Democratic congresswoman from Ohio. Republicans ...

Will the next federal election, due by May next year, result in a hung parliament? Everyone seems to think so. The opinion poll ingredients — low major-party primary support; two-party-preferred ...

The Russian analyst could not have been more explicit: “The lessons of the intervention in Syria are clear,” he wrote on 8 December in the business daily Kommersant, “First of all, it demonstrates the ...

Before he resigned from the House of Commons in 2023, Boris Johnson updated his register of parliamentary interests to reveal that he had received an advance of £510,000 (a shade over A$1 million) for ...