“When you feel you are nothing but a propagandist, and you feel like it’s going to consume all of you, you need to even it ...
From Kurt’s guitar to JFK’s rocking chair, the remarkable collection of memorabilia amassed by the late billionaire Jim Irsay goes under the hammer ...
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Little, proud

The outgoing Nationals leader’s self-aggrandising self-appraisal hasn’t gone over well with his colleagues ...
Was something great lost during the former Talking Heads frontman’s evolution from affected irony to chronic positivity? For a long time, David Byrne was an actor playing an imponderable version of ...
There is little I can add to this searing, stunning open letter, lest I be guilty of trying to summarise it myself. But it is rather unfortunate that the people who most need to read it are the people ...
You can make the case that rapid change always brings existential dread. Or that there’s nothing new about the end of the world. But it really is different this time. Consider the recent forecast made ...
2025: With Australia’s political institutions being key to its prosperity, do we require a form of conservative radicalism to preserve them? When I proposed the title for this talk to the ABC, I was ...
For almost a decade now, the world’s two most powerful countries have been competing over which of them will dominate the world’s most important and dynamic region. America has been trying to remain ...
A new Australian novelist skewers her nation’s familial fault lines, while a veteran British writer skewers his whole damn country I am the executor of my parents’ will – not by choice, but by the ...