Born in 1947, the child of refugees, Manne was “fascinated by small, apparently insignificant events that seemed to reveal ...

Dutton’s strategy of ignoring the inner-city seats in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth that the Liberals lost to teal or Greens candidates will have been vindicated — if not wholly then in large part. The ...

The safety or vulnerability of seats might vary because of the strength or weakness of local members, the presence of a particular industry or of local “discontent,” demographic changes since the last ...

In writing about Joan Lindsay nee à Beckett Weigell, a cousin of Martin Boyd, Niall uses her knowledge of Melbourne’s wealthy ...

He thinks the most important questions in public housing renewal are what structures get built and how long they endure. “A ...

So when a new example of the genre (a dual biography by dual biographers, no less) sums up the story in six introductory ...

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Media Watch, ABC’s long-running scourge of shoddy journalistic practices, is back for another year with Linton Besser as its ...

An organisation set up to distribute academic research to teachers gets off on the wrong foot, and stays there ...

Bill Clinton, in Gallup polling, had a rough beginning but didn’t go underwater until May 1993, four months in. At the end of ...

As the late poet’s sister Josie McSkimming aptly puts it, Porter was that “unicorn” in Australian literature — a successful poet. On any random page of a Porter poetry collection or verse novel the ...

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