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 ...

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 ...

Back in April 2015 Tony Abbott’s environment minister, Greg Hunt, boasted of the “stunning success” of the first “auction” under his government’s Emissions Reduction Fund. The ERF was the centrepiece ...

At the risk of oversimplification, there are two Jewish responses to the current devastation in Palestine: the tribal and the humanist. Sadly we have witnessed many cases of the first, an eagerness to ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 — ...

After a couple of weeks in Washington DC, my rueful report is that Trumpworld is even stranger close up. Arriving after the president ordered the army to take over the capital, we were met by the ...