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 ...

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 ...

The question of how to exercise global governance without the United States now turns to the G20. Since it was founded in 1999, the group of the world’s largest economies (now twenty-one of them, ...

The new British guidelines cast Australia’s environmental assessment processes for fossil fuel projects in an unflattering light, to say the least. But the British government is taking a more direct ...

Is the act of composition itself a performance?“In the physical act of composing with a pencil, I am making musical movements, pressing harder, pressing more lightly”: a page from the manuscript of ...

Too often tales of exploration are told only from a whitefella perspective. But as this story of a roving zoologist reveals, “the observed” were observing closely when the American–Australian ...

The Atlantic ’s Adam Serwer calls it “a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science.” Donald Trump’s administration seems intent on dismantling the ...

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 ...

Time has transformed photographs of largely unknown people into representatives of an era ...

Throughout last year, Western Sydney Liberals from non-English-speaking backgrounds pleaded privately for Peter Dutton to tone down his language about the war in Gaza. Alongside his uncompromising ...

Believe it or not, there is a field of academic inquiry devoted to not knowing. Ignorance studies, which sometimes dignifies itself as “agnotology,” hopes to do for folly and cluelessness what ...