We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant political parties a few months before September’s presidential election.
New minister Jason Clare opted for adjustment rather than a rethink. Pending his own review, he delayed renegotiating the NSRA for twelve months. When it came, the “better and fairer schools” report ...
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If you were to drive from Barcaldine to Longreach to Winton, as I did recently, you would return fearing that the omnishambles of the Voice referendum will be joined in due course by the train wreck ...
Although he was the first Labor MP to become prime minister of Australia, Chris Watson’s brief, 113-day tenure as head of a minority government has rendered him a less than household name, though ...
French impressionism has been the cultural wallpaper of my life ever since, as a teenager, I first encountered Georges Seurat’s La Grande Jatte — all six square metres of it — at the Art Institute of ...
Debates about Australia’s colonisation, and especially about the British invasion of First Nations land, reached a peak in the early 2000s. Historians who emphasised high levels of frontier violence ...