The largest reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme are moving so fast that promises made to people with disability are already “being broken” to secure billions of dollars’ worth of ...

Syria: Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the Islamist group in Syria that oversaw the ousting of Bashar al-Assad, has unveiled ...

I’m always uncomfortable nominating just one book as my book of the year, but if I had to then it would probably be Percival Everett’s James (Mantle, 320pp, $34.99). A retelling of Mark Twain’s ...

The Coalition is moving to undo the First Nations naming of Australian military bases as it escalates its opposition to race-based symbols and other reconciliation policies. A senior Coalition source ...

There are really only two possibilities. Either Peter Dutton and Angus Taylor do not understand the basics of the Coalition’s signature nuclear power policy or they are deliberately, repeatedly ...

The day I meet with Chris Bettle, he recalls his age with incredulity. “I can’t believe I am 85. It can’t possibly be true,” he tells me one afternoon in his flat in the inner north of Canberra. “I ...

Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...

If this week’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) turns out to be Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ last budget statement before the election, it’ll be one of the grimmest sets of pre-election ...

I can say precisely when the last measure of my respect for the prime minister evaporated. It was October 3, the day Anthony Albanese asked each of us to look inside a bag of salt-and-vinegar chips ...

Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, adapted from the Martin Amis novel about the family of a Nazi commandant who lives next door to the Auschwitz concentration camp, was the outstanding film of ...

Focus group research by RedBridge indicates that voter perceptions of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are as bad as they were for his predecessor Scott Morrison, strengthening the growing belief that ...

The things we humans do to ourselves. Nor is there anything to say that, after a few days of excess and mandatory cheer, we should enter the reflective, self-critical state of composing resolutions ...