Having sailed close to the financial wind in its first iteration, Apple Computer Company (founded by two Steves: Jobs and Wozniak), it became a poster child for American innovation, product excellence ...

National affairs “This is our mandate” Karen Middleton 9 May 2025 Despite a remarkable win, caution will remain the watchword of the Albanese prime ministership ...

“In the physical act of composing with a pencil, I am making musical movements, pressing harder, pressing more lightly”: a page from the manuscript of Andrew Ford’s The Carnival of the Insects.

An auspiciously timed amendment to departmental responsibilities highlights a long delay in federal electronic-surveillance reforms ...

These risks may explain the second big concern about housing affordability: the worry that “my child can’t afford to buy a house.” While buying a first home might seem “affordable” if we only look at ...

Across the southeast of the continent now known as Australia, the recent bushfire season provoked a surge in interest in Aboriginal peoples’ fire practices and knowledge. These practices are often ...

The story of Elizabeth Macarthur, a driving force in early New South Wales, highlights some of the gaps in the story of colonial Australia, writes Michelle Scott Tucker ...

The exhibition Fit to Print, currently showing at the National Library in Canberra and viewable online in the form of a virtual walkthrough, comprises 150 photographs, expertly printed, mounted and ...

The politicians and soldiers do the work but the thinkers give the world the language and concepts to understand power: Machiavelli wrestles Marx while Clausewitz argues theory with Sun Tzu and ...

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 ...

What links Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutinous March on Moscow, climate denialism, the Nord Stream pipeline and vaccine scepticism with the jailing of Aleksei Navalny, the Russian Orthodox patriarch’s rants ...

The question of how to exercise global governance without the United States now turns to the G20. Since it was founded in 1999, the group of the world’s largest economies (now twenty-one of them, ...