Features Australia

Black armband

8 March 2014 9:00 am

The first ever footy-playing Australian of the Year is ashamed to be an Australian

Here we go again

8 March 2014 9:00 am

The upcoming senate election in Western Australia shows Paul Keating was right: the upper house is unrepresentative swill

Satirising anti-Semitism

1 March 2014 9:00 am

Are some subjects too absurd to be made fun of?

Indonesia should grow up

1 March 2014 9:00 am

The country’s ability to conduct itself as a mature regional power is increasingly in doubt

Notes of a diplomat

1 March 2014 9:00 am

New York. One of the best overseas postings in Australia’s Foreign Affairs portfolio. So yet another politician is to enliven…

Trollhunters are a menace to the internet

1 March 2014 9:00 am

Don’t blame Twitter for the tragic death of Charlotte Dawson

Australian Notebook

1 March 2014 9:00 am

To Sydney for the first of three G20 meetings in Australia this year. It’s a long way to travel, but…

The Don in his heyday

Academics against The Don

22 February 2014 9:00 am

Bradman’s brilliance was peculiar; his personality wasn’t

On the Contrary

22 February 2014 9:00 am

Once again, Labor seems genuinely baffled that there aren’t more votes in propping up dying industries. The (non-existent) canneries and…

Don’t mention the war

22 February 2014 9:00 am

It’s time for a serious inquiry into our invasion of Iraq

‘Ah, those were the days’

American notes

22 February 2014 9:00 am

The 1980 US presidential election campaign was characterised by warnings from the Carter White House about the impact of a…

Terror Australis

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Wolf Creek 2 marks a sea change in our film industry

On the Contrary

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Once upon a time, I liked the boats. I thought the absence of boats to be a lamentable prospect. I…

You’re no John Stuart Mill

15 February 2014 9:00 am

On the constitutional preamble and section 18C, the Attorney-General is not off to a good start

An Aussie wolf on Wall Street

8 February 2014 9:00 am

The new movie resonates with Eighties London adland, albeit in a less cartoonish fashion

I love my ABC

8 February 2014 9:00 am

And I want the public broadcaster to be privatised

On the contrary

8 February 2014 9:00 am

Last October, the ABC aired two consecutive episodes of its flagship science programme, Catalyst, which claimed the causal link between…

Our right-wing bogeyman

1 February 2014 9:00 am

Step forward Scott Morrison for working up your ideological foes into a collective state of hysteria

Leave plenty to the imagination

1 February 2014 9:00 am

Two historical exhibitions on Australia and the US struggle to capture the spirit of the two nations

Lose the Lord’s Prayer

1 February 2014 9:00 am

For the sake of the country, the church, and the politicians who pray it

On the contrary

1 February 2014 9:00 am

I’ve lost a lot of friends this week. News travels fast and the idea of someone writing a weekly column…

Draconian Barry

25 January 2014 9:00 am

With his tough new laws, the NSW Premier is taking the fun out of Sydney nightlife

Rolf and Operation Gumtree

25 January 2014 9:00 am

The UK’s favourite Australian: guilty or not guilty?

Uni activists need to get real in the Abbott era

18 January 2014 9:00 am

Memo to the National Union of Students: ditch the ideology and represent undergraduates

Tony is soft on crime

18 January 2014 9:00 am

The only way to stop aggressive drunks is for the state to become even more aggressive with them