Born in 1947, the child of refugees, Manne was “fascinated by small, apparently insignificant events that seemed to reveal ...

The Trump administration is going to extraordinary lengths to undermine the system’s capacity to check presidential actions ...

As the late poet’s sister Josie McSkimming aptly puts it, Porter was that “unicorn” in Australian literature — a successful poet. On any random page of a Porter poetry collection or verse novel the ...

Books & arts The journalist and the dictator Graeme Dobell 13 January 2025 Incensed by efforts to reinvent former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, a former foreign correspondent sets the record ...

Generous windows in the timber-framed entrance spill winter sun across a patterned floor. Light bounces off the glazed tiles lining the walls. Pendant lightfittings dangle from an extra-high ceiling.

Media Watch, ABC’s long-running scourge of shoddy journalistic practices, is back for another year with Linton Besser as its ...

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So when a new example of the genre (a dual biography by dual biographers, no less) sums up the story in six introductory ...

Bill Clinton, in Gallup polling, had a rough beginning but didn’t go underwater until May 1993, four months in. At the end of ...

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