Her politics were guided by her research and by her body, though not in that order. As Brett surmises: Bea’s body would alert her to “social problems that demanded a political solution.” Whether it ...

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 ...

Canada’s Liberals enter the final week of the election campaign with plenty of help from south of the border Four months ago the Liberal Party of Canada looked headed for disaster. After nine years in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Books & arts Menzies hits his straps Paul Rodan 14 February 2025 Much good luck and a degree of good management enabled the long-serving prime minister to ride the postwar boom ...

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 ...

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has built a political philosophy on her family’s efforts to reconcile the past and the future ...

Essays & reportage If you want to fix America, fix Detroit Don Watson 25 September 2024 Once a symbol of greatness, the city’s uneven decline mirrors the national malaise ...