5 天之前 · Books & arts Without Hemingway, no Bogart Peter Marks 31 January 2025 What makes a twentieth-century novel? Books & arts Baby steps Philippa Hawker 30 January 2025 Nicole Kidman is well-matched by Harris Dickinson in an exploration of pleasure, power and control National affairs Courage, minister! Dean Ashenden 28 January 2025 Can South Australia’s flicker of educational inspiration be ...

2025年1月28日 · International Yet, look at the chaos Robin Jeffrey 3 February 2025 History collided with the ambitions of Narendra Modi’s government at India’s Maha Kumbh festival The view from elsewhere Trump starts to break things Noah Smith 3 February 2025 The US president’s tariff decisions will damage not just America’s allies but also its own economy Essays & reportage Working for Whitlam Iola ...

6 天之前 · Once upon a time the novel was — well, novel. Some locate its beginnings in English in picaresque fictions such as George Gascoigne’s The Adventures of Master F.J. (1573), or with Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko; or The Royal Slave: A True History (1688). Still others see Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) as the first indisputably great novel in English.

2024年11月22日 · Since hearings began last December, the inquiry has heard forty-three days of testimony. Searches ordered by the inquiry have generated some 52,000 pages of documents that have been digitised and made easily available on computer terminals, and proceedings have been live-screened and transcribed for public access.. Facing Acting Justice Hulme are …

2024年12月23日 · Essays & reportage Beyond words Iain Topliss 18 December 2024 Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons Books & arts History’s hinge Jon Richardson 9 December 2024 How will competition and cooperation between Russia and China in Central Asia affect the global balance of power?

2024年11月4日 · Australia hasn’t been immune to this kind of controversy. In 2004 the Age created an outcry when it endorsed John Howard for another term in government despite a long history of editorial criticism, particularly of the Howard government’s harsh treatment of asylum seekers. Staff alleged that the paper had been ordered to back Howard by then Fairfax editorial director and later ABC boss ...

For much if not all of Australia’s history, the foreign ministry has been a place where over-talented cabinet colleagues and defeated leadership rivals can be parked in the hope they find the job an interesting enough distraction from bread-and-butter, vote-winning domestic policies.

2024年12月9日 · One of Great Game On’s more dubious claims is that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reflects a longer-term quest to expand in order to keep secure and safe.This is in line with a Realist “don’t poke the bear” argument that allowing or encouraging Ukraine to move out of Russia’s self-appointed sphere of influence was as much or more to blame for the invasion as Russian aggression.

2025年1月17日 · The emergence of populist parties as significant electoral players in many parts of the world has been a shock to the unusually stable party systems of the decades since the Second World War, but in the longer arc of democratic politics it should hardly be surprising.

2024年9月17日 · While the broader state of the armed forces was outside the commission’s terms of reference, a timely new book based on the first independent study of institutional abuse within the military has detailed the failure of repeated efforts to reform Australia’s army, navy and air force over the past half century.