Australia: How do you describe the Constitution of one of the most successful Western liberal democracies in history?

In 2021, in the lead-up to what would become the unsuccessful referendum to recognise a First Nations voice in the Australian Constitution, I wrote in these pages that there was an inevitability to ...

The Greens say the results of the NACC investigation into the illegal Robodebt scheme will be cold comfort to the thousands of Australians whose lives were destroyed by one of the biggest scandals in ...

The middle class has always dreamed of saving the world from corruption and decay. Yet its revolutions have a curious habit of destroying things that were imperfect but human, replacing them with ...

The US and Israel are now at war with Iran, and for many Iranians in Australia, watching it unfold doesn’t feel like a simple ...

In March 1972, an Australian doctor arrived in newborn Bangladesh for a mission he would later describe as one of the most dreadful experiences of his career.

The White House aide who revealed that Richard Nixon had secretly recorded his conversations as president has died. Alexander ...

In 1969, Republican Congressman Paul McCloskey warned executives gathered at a packaging conference that they had to do something about the waste they were creating — “not dispose of it, but reduce ...

A Torrens Certificate ensures undisputed ownership of real property for the titleholder, removing the need for deed recording and simplifying property transactions.

A WA man accused of preparing “a mass casualty event” at parliament house and Muslim places of worship was at one point able to access firearms through the use of a well-known loophole in the state’s ...

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The man who committed mass murder inside two Christchurch mosques in 2019 has argued in court that when he pleaded guilty he was not making rational decisions and, for that reason, he should be ...