I wrote “ The Preservation of Pure Learning ” — my summing up of the state of Australian universities for Inside Story after ...

The first hours of Operation Epic Fury — the joint US–Israeli military offensive against Iran, launched on 28 February — demonstrated the extraordinary reach of modern precision warfare. US and ...

National affairs Could Labor win big? Murray Goot 22 April 2025 Some polls are suggesting it will — but what distinguishes those polls from the ones that aren’t? Essays & reportage Did late deciders ...

Books & arts Frontlash Nicholas Brown 18 February 2026 Friedrich Hayek’s successors used an expanded armoury to fight their war against the state. But what explains their receptive audience?

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This fourth and final volume of the Robert Menzies Institute’s examination of the record and legacy of Australia’s longest-serving prime minister is also its lengthiest. No fewer than twenty-two ...

Two new novels, one from Tasmania and the other from a South African writer, extend our understanding of empire and its consequences. Their settings are a century apart. Each is a hypothetical ...

Diplomats spend their careers writing “cables” that report, record, recommend and instruct. This lifetime habit of writing has fed a minor Australian tradition of foreign affairs books by retired ...

Climate change scientists and activists have long harboured an uncomfortable secret: they don’t know how to achieve net zero emissions. That goal is imperative if the rise in global temperature is to ...

How’s this for a contract a journalist had to sign to grant screen rights for their work? “I understand you may desire to portray and/impersonate me in the Picture and use my name, likeness, and ...

Winston Churchill arrived at the White House in December 1941 with much on his mind. It was less than a month since Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and the British prime minister needed to discuss ...