A pacey dramatisation of News International’s phone-hacking and influence-wielding leaves the story necessarily unfinished ...

The Chinese-owned video platform has become the largest source of news for Australians under twenty-five. Now Donald Trump wants it run in America by the Murdochs and other friendly plutocrats ...

America’s domestic weaknesses only serve to convince China, America’s main rival, that the age of democracy is on the wane. Trump’s re-election in November 2024 constitutes a confirmation, if not an ...

When Russian drones entered Poland on the night of 9–10 September, I was across the border in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. As has happened so often since February 2022, sirens had warned of incoming ...

This book complicates that tapestry.” It does this by taking “children seriously as the authors of their own lives.” People told Gallagher that the sources for the story she wanted to write — children ...

Books & arts If something can’t go on forever, it will stop John Quiggin 14 August 2025 A pessimistic account of the world’s population future offers no good reasons to panic about low birth rates ...

Madison Griffiths’s probing new book begins with “a curiosity worth sweating over.” She’s on the other side of a relationship ...

Let me start with a couple of incidents that illustrate the great political puzzle we now face. Incident 1: On Thursday a number of tech billionaires had dinner with Donald Trump. They were ...

Most Australians know comparatively little about their closest neighbour. While many of them would be able to rattle off the names of dozens of New Zealanders — sports people, politicians, actors, ...

Hussein Agha and Robert Malley have offered a needed reality-check on the eve of next week’s UN session on the Gaza war, which will be defined by the phrase, “two-state solution.” In their newly ...

About a third of the way into John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs — a book that sets Lennon and McCartney’s platonic love affair in the context of their lyrics, melodic lines and chord structures — ...