He’s also not for turning on his proposed changes to taxing unrealised capital gains on superannuation accounts above $3 ...

When Sussan Ley selected her frontbench in May, she replaced Jacinta Nampijinpa Price as shadow Indigenous Australians minister with Kerrynne Liddle. The choice was a symbolic step in Ley’s centrist ...

Gail Jones’s eleventh novel, The Name of the Sister, opens with a freelance journalist, Angie, watching a catalogue of miseries on the evening news. Her attention is caught by two successive items ...

A leaked transcript of a Liberal Women’s Council meeting highlights the challenges facing Sussan Ley over women’s representation ...

The contrasting fates of fifteen-year-olds in Canada and Australia reflect different choices made well over a century ago. In their own ways, both countries exhibit a significant degree of path ...

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In her ambition, her fortitude and her love for her family, Elizabeth Macarthur was just like these other strong, intelligent and successful women. She is interesting not because she was some sort of ...

Similarly, in Fishwick’s “ Man on the bank of the Snowy River between Pinch River and Jacobs River ” (1932), the man, placed in the left-hand band of the golden mean, looks across the water towards a ...

As a result, Australia has lots of underused housing. At the 2021 census, more than 4.3 million homes (44 per cent of all dwellings) had two or more spare bedrooms. More than a million of these, ...

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 ...

For those who have studied the postcolonial history of fire management in southern Australia, it has been baffling to read media accounts that assume Aboriginal peoples’ fire knowledge needs ...

When another Newspoll dropped this week (51–49 in the Coalition’s favour, again) the Australian mentioned a change in how its pollsters will be estimating two-party-preferred figures between now and ...