Inside Politics: How Albanese could use his huge majority to introduce major reform

This week the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gave a big speech at the National Press Club in Canberra, and used it to dangle the prospect of economic reform.During its first term, the Albanese government was criticised for not being bold enough in its agenda. So is the PM signalling he will use hi…

Is Trump inciting a civil war?

It’s hard to keep up with what’s happening in Los Angeles. And why. On Saturday, federal agents were jumping out of an unmarked van near a Home Depot parking lot and began grabbing people. Then we heard that Donald Trump had called in the National Guard. And then the Marines. And then, yesterday …

The Big Short author Michael Lewis all but predicted DOGE. Here’s what he thinks happens next with Trump and the USA

New York Times bestselling Author Michael Lewis is, as one interviewer recently put it, “a kind of guru of our age”. This is because, in books like Moneyball, The Big Short and Going Infinite, not to mention his own podcast, he has chronicled some of the big social and economic seachanges of our ti…

Scott Morrison recognised in King's Birthday Honours list

Australia has marked the King’s Birthday long weekend and with it comes honours for 830 people. But there’s one that stands out: former prime minister Scott Morrison’s appointment as a companion of the order of Australia has proved divisive. So why did Morrison get the honour? Does he deserve it?…

Why the humpback whale is an Australian success story

Male humpback whales sing to each other, and when they do - over the course of a season - a favourite “hit song” emerges. Each whale passes it along, until all the humpback males in the Southern Ocean sing it.  But humpback whales aren’t just amazing creatures, capable of tenderness, and rivalries…

Inside Politics: Why Dorinda Cox's Greens defection was personal for the PM

The dramatic shakeout from the general election continued this week, this time from the left wing of Australian politics, with WA Greens senator Dorinda Cox defecting to Labor.  It was a coup for a triumphant Prime Minister.  But will the PM live to regret his new recruit? What does Senator Cox’s d…

Trump’s MAGA mindset: the US’s biggest export

Most of us have, for so long, lived under the shadow of American exports, that we’d be hard-pressed to choose which was the most intrusive. Hollywood rom-coms? Halloween? J.Lo? That list might have been relevant a couple of weeks ago. But now America’s biggest export is Donald Trump’s MAGA mindset…

‘Ukraine does have the cards’: the unexpected drone strike on Russia

When news broke, over the weekend, that Ukraine launched a devastating and unprecedented attack on Russian air force bases, it shocked analysts around the world.  The damage was huge. And it made a mockery of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s expectation, more than three years ago, that he would …

'Targeted terror attack' in Boulder, Colorado

Since October 7, incidents of antisemitism have surged across the globe, with people attacked and synagogues and homes vandalised. It’s with this backdrop that the latest attack has occurred, this time at a pro-Israel event in the United States. Today, world editor Catherine Naylor on the attack …

The lawyer (and author) who represented Palestine in international court

How are we to make sense of the swirling chaos around us? The multiple wars, accusations of wrongdoing, and human carnage? And how can we possibly have civilised conversations about it all? British barrister and author Philippe Sands, is uniquely placed to guide us through this moment. It’s not ju…