A striking moment in Australia’s election campaign came when David Speers asked the prime minister and the opposition leader if they trust the president of the United States. Normally a trust-in-the-alliance question would be met with gush about shared values, one hundred years of mateship and the wonderful nature of
It tells you something about the turmoil in the global economy caused by Donald Trump that the question on everyone’s lips as they arrived in Washington last week for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank was: will the United States even show up? US treasury
It’s accepted wisdom that incumbency counts in individual seats and forfeiting it has a cost. What’s less easy to quantify is precisely how much of a retiring MP’s margin is personal and exits with them. A good incumbent can be worth up to 3 per cent extra in city seats
Log on to the AFL’s official match centre and you’ll find out not only what games are coming up but also the odds for each side offered by “major partner” Sportsbet. You can toggle the odds on and off, and they’re hidden if you admit to being under eighteen, but
We can imagine Beatrice Faust — sleek bobbed hair, slash of red lipstick, large sparkling intelligent eyes — delivering an address at the second Mary Owen dinner in Melbourne in 1987. Hundreds of feminists, swathed in suffragette purples, whites and greens, were gathered at a dinner organised by the Women’s
Early voting has commenced, and by the end of the second day around 1.1 million Australian had already pre-polled. Others would have already sent in a postal vote. With the electoral roll at a touch over eighteen million and official turnout likely to be around 90 per cent, give or
In 1942, midway through the second world war, the artist Sidney Nolan was conscripted into the Australian army. Posted to the Wimmera in isolated northwest Victoria, he did his bit to protect Australia from the Japanese Imperial Army over the next two years by valiantly guarding storehouses of wheat. The
The latest YouGov poll (11–15 April) has Labor on 53 per cent of the two-party vote, the latest Resolve poll (9–13 April) has Labor on 53.5 per cent, and the latest Morgan poll (7–13 April) has Labor on 54.5 per cent. These represent a swing to Labor since the last
Four months ago the Liberal Party of Canada looked headed for disaster. After nine years in government, the party was regularly polling below 20 per cent, with the opposing Conservatives consistently well above 40 per cent, a guarantee of a majority in Canadian politics. Some polls found the minor New
The Labor Party email looked suspiciously like mischief. On 10 April national secretary Paul Erickson sent a dispatch to the party’s supporters suggesting new research showed opposition leader Peter Dutton could lose his outer-Brisbane seat of Dickson. Badged as “breaking” news, the message was a brazen fundraising pitch to Labor
As historians of empire, we’ve long been interested in, and frustrated by, colonial portraiture. These physical manifestations of the colonial gaze are the unreliable narrators of a moment of encounter — one that proved devastating for Indigenous peoples across world. So what can colonial portraits tell us about the people
The Trump administration often touts tariffs as a way of exchanging short-term pain for long-term gain. Yes, there will be disruption in the short term, they argue, but once manufacturing returns to American shores and trade deficits disappear, prosperity will be supercharged. That was always incredibly unlikely to be true.
A striking moment in Australia’s election campaign came when David Speers asked the prime minister and the opposition leader if they trust the president of the United States. Normally a trust-in-the-alliance question would be met with gush about shared values, one hundred years of mateship and the wonderful nature of
It tells you something about the turmoil in the global economy caused by Donald Trump that the question on everyone’s lips as they arrived in Washington last week for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank was: will the United States even show up? US treasury
It’s accepted wisdom that incumbency counts in individual seats and forfeiting it has a cost. What’s less easy to quantify is precisely how much of a retiring MP’s margin is personal and exits with them. A good incumbent can be worth up to 3 per cent extra in city seats
Log on to the AFL’s official match centre and you’ll find out not only what games are coming up but also the odds for each side offered by “major partner” Sportsbet. You can toggle the odds on and off, and they’re hidden if you admit to being under eighteen, but
We can imagine Beatrice Faust — sleek bobbed hair, slash of red lipstick, large sparkling intelligent eyes — delivering an address at the second Mary Owen dinner in Melbourne in 1987. Hundreds of feminists, swathed in suffragette purples, whites and greens, were gathered at a dinner organised by the Women’s
Early voting has commenced, and by the end of the second day around 1.1 million Australian had already pre-polled. Others would have already sent in a postal vote. With the electoral roll at a touch over eighteen million and official turnout likely to be around 90 per cent, give or
In 1942, midway through the second world war, the artist Sidney Nolan was conscripted into the Australian army. Posted to the Wimmera in isolated northwest Victoria, he did his bit to protect Australia from the Japanese Imperial Army over the next two years by valiantly guarding storehouses of wheat. The
The latest YouGov poll (11–15 April) has Labor on 53 per cent of the two-party vote, the latest Resolve poll (9–13 April) has Labor on 53.5 per cent, and the latest Morgan poll (7–13 April) has Labor on 54.5 per cent. These represent a swing to Labor since the last
Four months ago the Liberal Party of Canada looked headed for disaster. After nine years in government, the party was regularly polling below 20 per cent, with the opposing Conservatives consistently well above 40 per cent, a guarantee of a majority in Canadian politics. Some polls found the minor New
The Labor Party email looked suspiciously like mischief. On 10 April national secretary Paul Erickson sent a dispatch to the party’s supporters suggesting new research showed opposition leader Peter Dutton could lose his outer-Brisbane seat of Dickson. Badged as “breaking” news, the message was a brazen fundraising pitch to Labor
As historians of empire, we’ve long been interested in, and frustrated by, colonial portraiture. These physical manifestations of the colonial gaze are the unreliable narrators of a moment of encounter — one that proved devastating for Indigenous peoples across world. So what can colonial portraits tell us about the people
The Trump administration often touts tariffs as a way of exchanging short-term pain for long-term gain. Yes, there will be disruption in the short term, they argue, but once manufacturing returns to American shores and trade deficits disappear, prosperity will be supercharged. That was always incredibly unlikely to be true.
