Sovereign is based on the true story of a deadly encounter between Jerry and Joseph Kane, a father and son, and West Memphis police officers in Arkansas. Swegal’s film concludes more or less where the ...

Back in December 2009, Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership of his party was disposed of over climate change policy. Or was it? Deep down, his demise was driven by terrible opinion polls that put the federal ...

I suspect many readers knew little, if anything, about Charlie Kirk before his murder on the 10 September. But if you have teenage kids they probably did. For months my son has been being showing me ...

Books & arts Engineering China’s future Michael Gill 17 October 2025 Sometimes the only things scarier than China’s problems are Beijing’s solutions, says seasoned observer Dan Wang ...

National affairs Simpler, fairer and more effective Saul Eslake 25 August 2025 Jim Chalmers’s roundtable cleared the way for much-needed tax reform ...

International Can the world be governed without the US? Michael Jacobs 5 July 2025 A UN conference discovers the absence of the United States can be an opportunity rather than a hindrance ...

Essays & reportage Scott’s justice Jeremy Gans 16 June 2023 Thirty-five years and five judgements after Scott Johnson’s body was found, can we be sure justice has been served? Essays & reportage ...

Other Voices Why aren’t Americans partying like it’s 1999? Paul Krugman 10 October 2025 This feels like another tech-fuelled sharemarket bubble, but there’s one big difference ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

It is salutary to turn on the television on the morning after the biggest landslide to the Labor Party since 1943 and the Liberal Party’s worst-ever election defeat. We must have had Sky on by the ...

Across the southeast of the continent now known as Australia, the recent bushfire season provoked a surge in interest in Aboriginal peoples’ fire practices and knowledge. These practices are often ...

Like most political terms, “neoliberalism” is used so loosely that many people have suggested it’s no more than a general pejorative. But the ideas and institutions that emerged from the economic ...