“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.

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, ...

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

In The Shrouds, David Cronenberg meditates on grief, death, technology and the erotic allure of conspiracy ...

For well over a decade, Australian policy-makers, journalists and commentators have been absorbed by the question of whether governments have the capacity for significant reform. Can they deliver the ...

Governments prioritise skilled migrants over family migrants because they’re perceived to lift productivity, fill labour market gaps and increase tax revenue. But the bias towards skills brings ...

Apple, the world’s leading manufacturer, epitomises the futility of the US–China tariff wars. Having sailed close to the financial wind in its first iteration, Apple Computer Company (founded by two ...

Early in 1973 the Karmel committee, created by the new and aggressively reformist Whitlam government, was hard at work devising a way for all schools, including Catholic parish schools and a handful ...

Kehlmann depicts choices made in the grimmest of circumstances, sometimes in the name of art. His central figure is G.W. (Georg Wilhelm) Pabst, the Austrian-born filmmaker probably best known for ...

One reason these predictions have only a limited range of variation is that most of the growth in population is already baked in. There are two billion or so children under fourteen in the world, and ...

Literary critic Susan Lever is general editor of the Cambria Australian Literature Series. She is writing a biography of the poet A.D. Hope.