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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It takes something for a prime minister with a majority of 156 to contrive a parliamentary defeat. But that was Sir Keir Starmer’s singular achievement this week. Or it would have been, had he not ...

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 ...

So begins Robert Garland’s rollicking excursion into death in the ancient world. In What to Expect When You’re Dead, the professor emeritus of classics at New York’s Colgate University ranges over 100 ...

Sussan Ley’s choice of Kerrynne Liddle as shadow Indigenous Australians minister symbolises her resolve to renew and moderate the parliamentary Liberal Party. Liddle evinces sobriety and worldly ...

Books & arts Empire of the southern seas Alessandro Antonello 27 May 2025 Australia is better seen as a vast archipelago, according to a new exploration of its iciest reaches ...

Francesca Dominello is a Lecturer in the Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University and co-author of The Family in Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Sonya Willis is a Lecturer in the Macquarie ...

A leaked transcript of a Liberal Women’s Council meeting highlights the challenges facing Sussan Ley over women’s representation ...