With his strange machines and uncanny understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created an entirely new technique ...

Housing minister Clare O’Neil says it’s “just too hard” to build houses in this country because “builders face a ridiculous thicket of red tape.” That must change, she says, if we’re to tackle the ...

The most striking observation in Dean Spears and Michael Geruso’s new book, After the Spike, is summed up by the cover illustration, which shows a world population rising rapidly to its current eight ...

Of all the economic problems proclaimed in the run-up to next week’s economic summit, the most alarming is that business investment is very weak. “Business investment has fallen notably over the past ...

Young voters are back! Or maybe they never left. Articles and talk programs pondering whether the youth vote “might decide the outcome this time” have been staple pre-election fillers for decades.

What strikes me most about the Aboriginal people I know is their generosity. Australian colonial history has given them endless reasons not to be generous, but still my Aboriginal friends and ...

Books & arts Not alone in the dark tunnel Tanya Dalziell 27 June 2025 Gail Jones’s latest novel echoes the preoccupations of much of her writing ...

Books & arts Working-class hero Brett Evans 24 April 2024 Gary Stevenson’s epiphany came once he’d joined the top ranks of London’s foreign-exchange traders Books & arts The teal thing Brett Evans 24 ...

National affairs Riding high Paul Rodan 4 June 2025 The final election count adds up to a remarkable win for Labor, but history offers warnings ...

John Edwards is a Non Resident Fellow of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and an Adjunct Professor with the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University. He is a former ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

These risks may explain the second big concern about housing affordability: the worry that “my child can’t afford to buy a house.” While buying a first home might seem “affordable” if we only look at ...