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

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 heroine of Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (in cinemas), the first feature from French writer-director Laura Piani, is also holding herself apart from the dating game, but for very different reasons.

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, ...

Share I vividly remember the day in May 2018 when the acting dean of the Australian National University’s College of Arts and Social Sciences contacted me in my capacity as a visiting Russia ...

What does it all mean for Australia? Treasurer Jim Chalmers has gone to Washington to plead for an exemption from Trump’s tariff threats on the grounds of running a big bilateral trade deficit and ...