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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three hours into last Friday’s hearing of the parliamentary inquiry examining artificial intelligence, Nationals senator Ross Cadell asked a straightforward question about copyright. The answer he ...

In 2012 a Canadian man named Dennis Meads walked into an Alberta courtroom carrying a stack of papers he believed would change his life. Change was needed. Dennis was in the middle of a difficult ...

Something really big happened last week in the world of artificial intelligence: Quite suddenly, after several years of relentless and disorienting momentum, the course of rapid AI progress ran ...

Are you at a very Chinese time in your life? Or is there more to “becoming Chinese” than buying a Labubu doll, drinking warm water, hopping into a BYD electric car or even joining a group of Chinese ...

Will the Australian parliament ever debate AUKUS? The latest opportunity came up in April this year, when the Albanese government released its latest National Defence Strategy; its text is yet to be ...

While sophisticates can smile at the old adage that one should neither a lender nor a borrower be, the notion that one should not be both at the same time — unless one is earning a little margin — is ...

As the European summer comes to an end, an intriguing question emerges. Will the record-breaking heat and wildfires that have devastated the continent over the past four months make any difference to ...