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 ...

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 ...

The sociology of education got off to a flying start in the 1950s and 1960s: against the prevailing assumption that kids got on well or badly at school according to their “ability,” sociology tracked ...

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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 ...

Work is not what it was. Does the office even still exist or has it been replaced by teams that could be anywhere? In republishing Moya Costello’s short novel The Office as a Boat a quarter of a ...

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 ...

When Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport opened in 1970 air travellers welcomed it as a marvel of modern efficiency. With its easy drop-off and pick-up areas and swish new baggage carousels it made the ...

The migration changes Tony Burke announced at the National Press Club on Thursday target temporary migration, especially international students and working holidaymakers. Burke organised his speech ...

Headlines for the big show business award ceremonies follow a few basic conventions: the show that sweeps the board; the controversial speech; the breakout newcomer or returning veteran; the ...