The long history behind the bill to criminalise incitement of race-based hatred (and why George Brandis says it proves he was right) ...

And they don’t get the intensity of heat that we get here, when the desert sends its probes towards us, usually from the ...

2025: Donald Trump’s presidency has given Australia the chance to recover its distinctive voice in world affairs We are experiencing another bout of panic about whether or not we are loved by America, ...

2025: Australia has the machinery of democracy, but does it have the spirit? The English-American author Os Guinness speaks of “civilisational moments”; the points every civilisation reaches where ...

Concern about the welfare of AI has got ahead of convincingly arguing it can become conscious Sometimes a question is a doorway. You are just standing there idly wondering Where did language come from ...

The acclaimed Australian crime writer had a deep appreciation for the folly of things Email was invented entirely for the benefit of Peter Temple. He knew this and he made full use of the fact. From ...

Many questions are being asked after the Bondi Beach shootings, and the hardest ones to address are the most important for our nation’s wellbeing On Sunday evening while driving home, I received a ...

2025: With Australia’s political institutions being key to its prosperity, do we require a form of conservative radicalism to preserve them? When I proposed the title for this talk to the ABC, I was ...

A key architect of the corruption commission calls for its head to resign after the latest controversy The commissioner of the two-year-old National Anti-Corruption Commission, Paul Brereton, has ...

Does a belief in the End Times inform Scott Morrison’s response to the climate crisis? After more than a year of debate, there are two broad views on Scott Morrison. The first is that he is ...

The acquisition of nuclear submarines is out of step with Australian tradition as a military middle power and wildly at odds with our international status Why are we getting nuclear-powered submarines ...

There is little I can add to this searing, stunning open letter, lest I be guilty of trying to summarise it myself. But it is rather unfortunate that the people who most need to read it are the people ...