Our democracy remained imperfect – that same year, the Commonwealth Franchise Act explicitly excluded Aboriginal Australians from the federal roll except those already enrolled to vote in a state – ...

John Anderson is a sixth-generation farmer and grazier from New South Wales, who spent 19 years in the Australian parliament including six years as deputy prime minister.

With Australia’s political institutions being key to its prosperity, do we require a form of conservative radicalism to ...

The prime minister forcing the treasurer to backdown on proposed superannuation changes shows this government’s direction – ...

So where, on this scorched earth, was my own humour and silliness? Though I possessed some, it was rarely found in my writing ...

1968: The lecture that coined the term ‘the great Australian silence’, in reference to the treatment of Indigenous Australians, remains integral to how our nation sees itself ...

1968: The lecture that coined the term ‘the great Australian silence’, in reference to the treatment of Indigenous ...

Both Nettle and Brereton are entitled to judicial pensions – Nettle of about $366,000 a year and Brereton about $298,500. It is not clear whether they are receiving those on top of what they are being ...

Talking to Karen Hao about writing Empire of AI underscores the difference between human authorship and AI’s text generation Sometimes it’s not the questions you ask, it’s the fact that you are there ...

Does a New Zealand start-up hoping to revolutionise the car-parts supply chain demonstrate how best to use AI? The story of New Zealand AI-based start-up Partly ticks a lot of the usual tech start-up ...

Dark Emu appeared in bookshops in March 2014 much as most books do: with a brief publicity campaign arranged by its publisher. Bruce Pascoe was already something of a public figure – as well as ...