Senator Jane Hume, who after a dreadful election campaign was dropped by Ley from the frontbench, is now deputy, the first senator of either major party to occupy that position since Western Australia ...

Books & arts Mother load Philippa Hawker 21 November 2025 Rose Byrne gives a devastating, compulsively watchable performance as a woman on the edge ...

Essays & reportage Yet more truth-telling? Dean Ashenden 11 April 2025 A Yes voter’s journey into her family’s past raises the question: what about those who voted No? National affairs Jason Clare’s ...

When I arranged to visit Mossmont Nurseries outside Griffith in the NSW Riverina, I pictured something like an expanded Bunnings garden centre. The reality is starkly different. In the words of ...

From the big end of town, the perspective is grim. Global investment in Victoria’s property sector halved in three years, down from $10 billion to $5 billion. The Property Council is quick to blame ...

Mark Carney is a serious man. Prime minister of Canada for just under a year, he is overwhelmingly preoccupied with responding to the upheavals of the second Trump administration. The tone of the ...

National affairs A poll that answers Dutton’s dreams… Murray Goot 10 March 2025 … winning without defeating any teals or Greens National affairs Losing ground? Murray Goot 9 June 2023 Support for the ...