As Ridler writes, the name’s “history is changed, becoming yours, / And yours by this: who calls this, calls you.” So, the ...

A huge statue of a horse stands on the shore, waves lapping around it. By rights it should be a towering figure, reared up on its hind legs, but it is half buried in sand, seemingly abandoned to the ...

SpaceX already sells sovereignty to Australia through services supplied by its Starlink division. “Designed, owned and ...

Barry Jones, a Hawke government science minister, published Sleepers Wake!, his book about the social and economic impacts of ...

The closing submissions of counsel assisting any judicial inquiry or royal commission often give a clue to the eventual findings, and so it has been with the NSW Supreme Court’s inquiry into the ...

“For the bullied” reads the dedication in the latest book about the Murdoch empire. It’s a reference to the many victims of Murdoch journalism, those who get “Murdoched,” as the title puts it — ...

Pauline Hanson’s address to the National Press Club was the talk of the town — well, of the town in which I live, Canberra, anyway — for a few days last week. But GetUp!’s banner stunt and Hanson’s ...

If a federal Liberal or Nationals leader had delivered Pauline Hanson’s Press Club speech on Wednesday and given the same answers to journalists’ questions, you might have declared them stark raving ...

Sylvia Martin has brought out of the shadows a number of fascinating characters, women who have lived their lives with distinction and achievement without sufficient fanfare or public acclaim. My ...

When the British ambassador George Macartney went to Beijing in 1793 with gifts of clocks, cannons, swords, woollen blankets and other British wares in the hope of creating the conditions for a ...

When I reviewed You Don’t Belong Here, Elizabeth Becker’s group biography of three women who reported on what the Vietnamese call the American war, I wondered why no one had written a biography of the ...

“One Nation surges ahead of Labor as budget flops,” said the Australian Financial Review’s headline on Monday, and it was mostly correct. The bit about the budget is old news and entirely true. But it ...