These projections are easily accessible, and anyone with a spreadsheet and a bit of time can reproduce them. Yet in the stream of pro-natalist articles in both traditional and new media the evidence ...

Major U-turns are never a good look for a government’s reputation for competence. But this is Starmer’s third in as many months. He had already reversed Reeves’s highly unpopular abolition of the ...

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

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 ...

Gabriële Buffet met Francis Picabia on a warm autumn evening in Verseilles in 1908. She was a gifted musician, he a successful painter like Gabriële’s brother Jean. Jean was taking his friend to meet ...

The American bestseller Abundance is making waves in Australia, but its key argument has less force on this side of the Pacific ...

In their bestselling book Abundance American journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that rich countries can be much richer. Their citizens can be healthier, their environment more salubrious, ...

So it was on Sunday when news broke that US planes had bombed three nuclear sites in Iran. No Australian cabinet minister fronted up with a comment (a blessing of Sunday). The press gallery doyen, ...

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

Outlining his government’s “positive and ambitious agenda” at the National Press Club last week, Anthony Albanese reiterated a series of health policy commitments made during the election campaign: ...

Despite these reservations, White’s insistence on the importance of future time is a welcome addition to political science research, which is often conducted as if it involved taking snapshots of ...

In a sweeping introduction to his 1958 book Australian Democracy the Melbourne political scientist A.F. Davies notoriously claimed that “the characteristic talent of Australians is not for ...