Veteran journalist Paul Kelly grapples with three prime ministers and the party they led With his new book on the ...

Barry Jones, a Hawke government science minister, published Sleepers Wake!, his book about the social and economic impacts of ...

SpaceX already sells sovereignty to Australia through services supplied by its Starlink division. “Designed, owned and ...

D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda spent several months in Australia during 1922, mostly living at Thirroul, south of Sydney. There, Lawrence worked on his novel Kangaroo, which is released as a Text ...

Essays & reportage The rise and fall of John Pesutto James Panichi 25 June 2025 A former leader’s trajectory is also the story of the Liberal Party’s narrowing base ...

Books & arts Circling the manosphere Nick Haslam 30 July 2025 A firsthand account of the emergence and deepening of a gender-fixated worldview Books & arts Breaking better Nick Haslam 28 August 2024 A ...

For a special “best of” season we asked long-time Inside Story contributors to choose one of their favourites among the articles they’ve written for us and add a 2026 postscript. This is Iain ...

Nations are built with pens and brushes not just hammers and nails. They exhibit their character in what they say about themselves as much as what is said about them. — Bruce Pascoe, Convincing Ground ...

In 1652 a Swiss washerwoman, Michée Chauderon, was arrested after the Devil visited her in the form of a shadow and, during intercourse, left a small mark under her breast and another on her thigh.

In August 1970 thousands of copies of Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint were printed and distributed in absolute secrecy to booksellers and wholesalers across Australia. “It was like the Germans going ...