Over the past few years, though, I have watched versions of reckoning with China unfold across very different milieus, each shaped by a unique vantage point. For Kaiser’s generation of American ...

Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto’s first state visit to Australia earlier this month had two major results, the first of which would once have been considered security-related and the second ...

The proceedings of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization don’t normally make headline news. (Except perhaps in Ocean Freight Times.) But the ...

Economic reality has a habit of throwing you curveballs — events you didn’t anticipate when making your predictions. Specifically, most economists, myself included, expected tariffs to be the big ...

Most Australians know comparatively little about their closest neighbour. While many of them would be able to rattle off the names of dozens of New Zealanders — sports people, politicians, actors, ...

Seventy-four years ago an outfit called Australian Public Opinion Polls conducted a Gallup survey about Australians’ attitudes to immigration. The headline in Melbourne’s Herald emphasised the ...

The most striking observation in Dean Spears and Michael Geruso’s new book, After the Spike, is summed up by the cover illustration, which shows a world population rising rapidly to its current eight ...

A few ordinary games as a defender with the Tasmanian Football League’s Glenorchy club ended any prospect I had of a footballing career. In those days, football was still a celebrated part of ...

The demise of the Coalition agreement this week — seemingly temporary — called into question the common assumption that Australia has a “two-party” system. The Liberal and National parties have become ...

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 ...

The exhibition Fit to Print, currently showing at the National Library in Canberra and viewable online in the form of a virtual walkthrough, comprises 150 photographs, expertly printed, mounted and ...

Peter Dutton says he regards John Howard as more of a role model than Donald Trump. That’s a relief. Hang on, though, which John Howard is he talking about? When it comes to race and immigration, it’s ...