The criminal charges against former solider Ben Roberts-Smith have quickly been co-opted into political posturing with ...

The PM was unable to offer much on the oil crisis in his national address as the government doesn’t know what an erratic US ...

On a recent visit to Alice Springs I was told the following story. At the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council, a secondee from inner-city Sydney was sharing an office ...

Wahidullah Waissi, Australian ambassador for Afghanistan, at the G7+ Ministerial Meeting in Dili, Timor-Leste, April 2025 As Taliban consular officers are permitted to enter Germany, attention turns ...

You can make the case that rapid change always brings existential dread. Or that there’s nothing new about the end of the world. But it really is different this time. Consider the recent forecast made ...

Dark Emu appeared in bookshops in March 2014 much as most books do: with a brief publicity campaign arranged by its publisher. Bruce Pascoe was already something of a public figure – as well as ...

When a struggling Silicon Valley startup launches a social network for AI agents, the world reels in shock as a million bots immediately organise themselves into a complex world. The incident ...

For almost a decade now, the world’s two most powerful countries have been competing over which of them will dominate the world’s most important and dynamic region. America has been trying to remain ...

There is little I can add to this searing, stunning open letter, lest I be guilty of trying to summarise it myself. But it is rather unfortunate that the people who most need to read it are the people ...

The farcical claim that Scott Morrison was “standing up for women” when he intervened in NSW Liberal preselections to save two men and one woman is somehow still being propagated. The woman in ...

Sometimes a question is a doorway. You are just standing there idly wondering Where did language come from? or What is consciousness?, and then you lean forward and push in and find yourself in a ...

The commissioner of the two-year-old National Anti-Corruption Commission, Paul Brereton, has become what you might call accident prone. Now, one of the NACC’s key architects is calling for him to ...