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

The closing submissions of counsel assisting any judicial inquiry or royal commission often give a clue to the eventual findings, and so it has been with the NSW Supreme Court’s inquiry into the ...

When the British ambassador George Macartney went to Beijing in 1793 with gifts of clocks, cannons, swords, woollen blankets and other British wares in the hope of creating the conditions for a ...

One of the occupational hazards of being a historian of modern Germany is that people often ask me questions about Adolf Hitler. I was even invited onto Derryn Hinch’s TV program to identify Hitler’s ...

“One Nation surges ahead of Labor as budget flops,” said the Australian Financial Review’s headline on Monday, and it was mostly correct. The bit about the budget is old news and entirely true. But it ...

When the current Pope Leo XIV ascended to office, he took his Papal name in homage to Pope Leo XIII, who presided over the Catholic Church in another time of great economic and social disruption at ...

Buenos Aires is the centre of the therapy world. According to the World Health Organization, Argentina has 222 psychologists working in mental health settings for every 100,000 residents, and the rate ...

If voting patterns at the Farrer by-election and the SA state election are replicated, the 2028 federal election might be a run-off between two political parties founded in Queensland, one by men in ...

For a number of years I worked on a project developing ways of analysing the market structure of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The successful funding bid by the late UNSW professor Gemma ...

I tried calling Susan just before we slipped our moorings for the ride to Samarai Island, an abandoned entrepôt in the southwest of what once was British New Guinea. I wanted to let her know I was on ...

Winston Churchill arrived at the White House in December 1941 with much on his mind. It was less than a month since Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and the British prime minister needed to discuss ...