Since 2006, the Economist Intelligence Unit has measured the quality of democracy in 167 countries and territories across the world. Its last index, for 2024, was published in February. Over the past ...

Over the past few years, though, I have watched versions of reckoning with China unfold across very different milieus, each shaped by a unique vantage point. For Kaiser’s generation of American ...

Books & arts A studio of one’s own Maria Nugent 14 November 2025 Drusilla Modjeska’s questing account of modernist artist-women in twentieth-century Europe ...

In the wake of the Port Arthur massacre in April 1996, newly elected prime minister John Howard worked with state and territory governments to implement tougher gun regulations. One of the strongest ...

National affairs Gallup’s errant offspring Murray Goot 16 September 2025 How did pollsters come up with such different figures on Palestinian recognition?

Other Voices Why do we still have so many radiologists? Noah Smith 17 October 2025 AI model-makers predicted a sharp dropoff in jobs. So far, reality is refusing to oblige ...

National affairs Pharmaceutical warfare Lesley Russell 24 March 2025 How far will the Trump administration follow Big Pharma in targeting Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme? International ...

Books & arts The tools of a composer’s trade Andrew Ford 3 July 2025 Is the act of composition itself a performance? Books & arts The unknowable Dylan Andrew Ford 1 February 2025 Looking for the music ...

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, ...

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 ...

Over the past six months, from Hobart to Broome and Adelaide to Thursday Island, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have reclaimed the movement towards constitutional recognition at twelve ...

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, the world’s attention has focused on what quickly became a grinding war of attrition, with its endless drone and missile ...