Our democracy remained imperfect – that same year, the Commonwealth Franchise Act explicitly excluded Aboriginal Australians ...

Will AI become conscious? Or, at least, the version that has appeared in news headlines this year. Any minute now, we are ...

Labor’s furtive attempt to fix up years of unlawful tax collection can only diminish public trust. So why is the opposition ...

To write a book is to start with an idea, which is personally a joyous time because my clumsiness is yet to stamp upon the purity of its snow. It can remain perfect only in theory; to give it ...

Tax reform isn’t about economics, it’s about democracy. While introductory economics teaches us that we should tax things we want less of and subsidise things we want more of, it is silent about how ...

John Anderson is a sixth-generation farmer and grazier from New South Wales, who spent 19 years in the Australian parliament including six years as deputy prime minister.

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DNA studies have provided the identity of the Somerton Man, but can’t explain why our fascination with his fate endures At last, the identity of Somerton Man, found dead on an Adelaide beach 73 years ...

With Australia’s political institutions being key to its prosperity, do we require a form of conservative radicalism to ...

Both Nettle and Brereton are entitled to judicial pensions – Nettle of about $366,000 a year and Brereton about $298,500. It is not clear whether they are receiving those on top of what they are being ...