In 1925 the Commonwealth statistician Charles Wickens, himself the son of migrant parents, likened Australia’s approach to immigration to a boa constrictor and its food. “We are in the habit of ...

Waging a “permanent contest” with China in the South Pacific, Australia is building new alliances and a new security system. Treaties signed with Island states are driven by fear and shock in Canberra ...

There are lots of reasons to believe Democrats are about to crush the midterm elections. Donald Trump’s average job approval is below 40 per cent, about five points lower than it was in the 2018 ...

For half a century, Eric Hobsbawm was a giant among historians. From his 1959 work on Primitive Rebels, which investigated “social bandits” (a term he coined) in pre-industrial societies, and his 1962 ...

Earle Christmas Page, surgeon and rural-conservative politician, and Paul Hasluck, historian and Liberal politician, are the latest subjects in publisher Connor Court’s extensive Australian ...