Among the many gems secreted in the Earle Page papers held by the National Library of Australia is the first-ever federal coalition agreement between a conservative rural party and a conservative ...

The numbers from the 2025 election are not yet final — as I write this, the AEC has counted just over 75 per cent of votes — but we do know that the pollsters’ figures all fell on the right side of ...

Much has been made in recent weeks of the signs of unrest among two pieces of Syria’s ethnic and confessional mosaic. Commentators in the West have pounced on recent violent clashes between government ...

If you ask the internet how to kill a zombie, the website Zombiepedia advises that “nearly all zombie survivalists are in agreement that the destruction of the brain is the only surefire way… (though ...

The proportion of “disadvantaged” kids going to school with other disadvantaged kids (and advantaged with advantaged) in Australia is among the highest in the rich countries of the OECD. Coming on top ...

Most discussions I see about China these days are about US–China competition, or the question of whether China’s economy will reign supreme (my answer: probably yes, because it’s really big). But ...

Fifty years ago this a series of confrontations between groups of Aboriginal people and police at Laverton, on the western edge of Western Australia’s Great Victoria Desert, led to the arrest of large ...

For once, the superlatives apply. It was a “shock”; it’s “stunning.” No one expected this. At time of writing, across the 111 electorates with (incomplete) two-party-preferred counts, the Australian ...

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 ...

It’s accepted wisdom that incumbency counts in individual seats and forfeiting it has a cost. What’s less easy to quantify is precisely how much of a retiring MP’s margin is personal and exits with ...

We are in the twilight of election campaign 2025 and betting markets, those distillers of expectations, are giving Labor around a 90 per cent chance of retaining government. The final polls are ...

It tells you something about the turmoil in the global economy caused by Donald Trump that the question on everyone’s lips as they arrived in Washington last week for the annual meetings of the ...