Democracy depends on citizens sharing a common reality. The greatest threat to that may not be disagreement over facts, but ...

As America marks its 250th year, its greatest achievement may be a culture that relentlessly reinvented literature, producing ...

Australia knows gambling advertising causes harm. Yet political compromise continues to protect the industry's most valuable ...

A Bill before Parliament would rewrite key principles of the NDIS, expanding ministerial discretion while narrowing access to ...

Predictions of population catastrophe have shaped public policy for more than two centuries. Yet again and again, the experts ...

The World Cup is a celebration of underdogs and shared hope. It is also a showcase for extraordinary wealth, political power ...

By the time many children arrive in court, the state has already spent years watching them fall through schools, child ...

Created to investigate corruption in government, Australia's anti-corruption commission now finds its own independence and ...

Benjamin Disraeli, writer, wit and British Prime Minister (1874–80), is still noted for his bons mots. The oft-quoted expression ‘Never complain. Never explain,’ is attributed to him, but my favourite ...

The Australian Government has proposed a major overhaul of capital gains taxation. Under the reforms, the long-standing 50 per cent capital gains tax discount for assets held longer than a year would ...

The strongest case for immigration may begin by acknowledging its costs as well as its benefits. Honest debate about trade-offs, rather than comforting certainties, is more likely to build the public ...