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.

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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 ...