Friendship is having a moment. Connoisseurs of illustrious children’s television shows like K-Pop Demon Hunters or Frozen will have noticed that Prince Charming has been usurped by Girl Gangs. Sociological surveys report on friendship’s forward march into the tightly controlled territory of the nuclear family unit, with a 2023 Australian
The twenty-nineth of January 2025. Three-and-a-half weeks to go until Germany’s federal election. The Bundestag, the country’s federal parliament, is sitting. Since the Free Democrats left the governing coalition, the government of Social Democrat Olaf Scholz no longer commands a majority. The Christian Democrats have tabled a motion calling for
Winston Churchill arrived at the White House in December 1941 with much on his mind. It was less than a month since Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and the British prime minister needed to discuss wartime strategy with US president Franklin D. Roosevelt. He had flesh to press and war
This fourth and final volume of the Robert Menzies Institute’s examination of the record and legacy of Australia’s longest-serving prime minister is also its lengthiest. No fewer than twenty-two chapters, gathered by editor Zachary Gorman, make a detailed appraisal impractical, so this review will focus mostly on those elements of
The spacebar, the backspace key and a couple of vowels take the most punishment on your average keyboard. On Adam Phillips’s laptop the question mark key probably suffers a similar fate. The prolific British psychoanalyst and essayist is forever posing questions, sometimes toying with an extended series in a single
For some pundits watching Donald Trump and his cabal plunge the United States into another foreign strike, this time against Iran in alliance with Israel, the search for paradigms led to cartoon characters and plots. Among them was the conservative British-American historian Niall Ferguson. Despite supporting Trump’s action, he couldn’t
Election day in Saitama, above Tokyo on the map, had begun with snow that at last gave a taste of the gigantic, weeks-long falls to the north and west. Outside the polling station the two of us briefly parted, I to a nearby park that had acquired a dozen scattered,
Climate change scientists and activists have long harboured an uncomfortable secret: they don’t know how to achieve net zero emissions. That goal is imperative if the rise in global temperature is to be halted. It means human society can ultimately put greenhouse gases into the atmosphere only to the extent
How’s this for a contract a journalist had to sign to grant screen rights for their work? “I understand you may desire to portray and/impersonate me in the Picture and use my name, likeness, and biography in connection therewith… and that the Picture may be based on fact, be partially
Diplomats spend their careers writing “cables” that report, record, recommend and instruct. This lifetime habit of writing has fed a minor Australian tradition of foreign affairs books by retired diplomats The Oz-diplomat genre offers views of Australia from overseas posts and from inside the unusual city that is Canberra. The
Randa Abdel-Fattah has acquired considerable name-recognition since being invited to appear at the 2026 Adelaide Writers’ Week only to be disinvited for fear, it is said, that her session would be too controversial. AWW’s director resigned, soon followed by most of the Adelaide Festival board. Writers Week was cancelled. I
Until recently, pollsters in Australia haven’t had a lot to complain about. True, sampling isn’t what it used to be. When polling was conducted face to face, and sampling points drawn from the electoral roll gave almost every voter an equal chance of being interviewed — indeed, even after polling
Friendship is having a moment. Connoisseurs of illustrious children’s television shows like K-Pop Demon Hunters or Frozen will have noticed that Prince Charming has been usurped by Girl Gangs. Sociological surveys report on friendship’s forward march into the tightly controlled territory of the nuclear family unit, with a 2023 Australian
The twenty-nineth of January 2025. Three-and-a-half weeks to go until Germany’s federal election. The Bundestag, the country’s federal parliament, is sitting. Since the Free Democrats left the governing coalition, the government of Social Democrat Olaf Scholz no longer commands a majority. The Christian Democrats have tabled a motion calling for
Winston Churchill arrived at the White House in December 1941 with much on his mind. It was less than a month since Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and the British prime minister needed to discuss wartime strategy with US president Franklin D. Roosevelt. He had flesh to press and war
This fourth and final volume of the Robert Menzies Institute’s examination of the record and legacy of Australia’s longest-serving prime minister is also its lengthiest. No fewer than twenty-two chapters, gathered by editor Zachary Gorman, make a detailed appraisal impractical, so this review will focus mostly on those elements of
The spacebar, the backspace key and a couple of vowels take the most punishment on your average keyboard. On Adam Phillips’s laptop the question mark key probably suffers a similar fate. The prolific British psychoanalyst and essayist is forever posing questions, sometimes toying with an extended series in a single
For some pundits watching Donald Trump and his cabal plunge the United States into another foreign strike, this time against Iran in alliance with Israel, the search for paradigms led to cartoon characters and plots. Among them was the conservative British-American historian Niall Ferguson. Despite supporting Trump’s action, he couldn’t
Election day in Saitama, above Tokyo on the map, had begun with snow that at last gave a taste of the gigantic, weeks-long falls to the north and west. Outside the polling station the two of us briefly parted, I to a nearby park that had acquired a dozen scattered,
Climate change scientists and activists have long harboured an uncomfortable secret: they don’t know how to achieve net zero emissions. That goal is imperative if the rise in global temperature is to be halted. It means human society can ultimately put greenhouse gases into the atmosphere only to the extent
How’s this for a contract a journalist had to sign to grant screen rights for their work? “I understand you may desire to portray and/impersonate me in the Picture and use my name, likeness, and biography in connection therewith… and that the Picture may be based on fact, be partially
Diplomats spend their careers writing “cables” that report, record, recommend and instruct. This lifetime habit of writing has fed a minor Australian tradition of foreign affairs books by retired diplomats The Oz-diplomat genre offers views of Australia from overseas posts and from inside the unusual city that is Canberra. The
Randa Abdel-Fattah has acquired considerable name-recognition since being invited to appear at the 2026 Adelaide Writers’ Week only to be disinvited for fear, it is said, that her session would be too controversial. AWW’s director resigned, soon followed by most of the Adelaide Festival board. Writers Week was cancelled. I
Until recently, pollsters in Australia haven’t had a lot to complain about. True, sampling isn’t what it used to be. When polling was conducted face to face, and sampling points drawn from the electoral roll gave almost every voter an equal chance of being interviewed — indeed, even after polling
