Books & arts Dropping out, burning out, tuning out Andrew Dean 27 June 2025 Nobody’s happy about the state of Australian universities, but a seasoned academic has some remedies ...

In his new collection of eight wide-ranging essays, the distinguished photographer Michael Collins makes a plea for the art of close observation. The viewer’s role is to look, not merely to glance and ...

An evolving monument of Australian foreign policy has reached its thirteenth volume. Now covering the seven decades from 1950 to 2020, Australia in World Affairs is sustained and shepherded by the ...

One recent summer’s afternoon my wife and I were finishing a picnic with friends overlooking the North Saskatchewan River, with the prairie stretching out to the horizon in all directions. Our host ...

Chris Bonnor is an education writer, speaker, advocate and former NSW principal. He has served as President of the NSW Secondary Principals’ Council and is author of The Stupid Country and What Makes ...

What happened when the satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer, who died on Saturday at ninety-seven, came to puritanical Adelaide in 1960?

The world’s highest court has just given the Australian government a giant climate headache. For all the rhetorical, political and practical support Australia offers the small Pacific island ...

Last week, kicking off a 15 per cent reduction in the US state department’s workforce, more than 1300 officials received termination notices. Those considered surplus included officials with expertise ...

Australia’s new communications minister Anika Wells had some big files in the in-tray she inherited in May. Among the most pressing was the future of free-to-air TV. Her predecessor, Michelle Rowland, ...

Books & arts The art of disagreeing Jock Given 23 August 2021 “We should be civil with those we don’t know, and aim to know them well enough that we can be uncivil,” argues a new book From the archive ...

Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts ...

Few who sat down to hear Ken Henry speak about environment law this week would have been surprised by his blunt analysis. But they may not have expected the sharply plain-speaking former Treasury head ...