Wagner, a member of the local gendarmerie in a village called Ustinovka, allegedly organised the digging of a mass grave, ...

Sending in the troops is meant to signal power and control. Yet many locals saw it as a lesser example of the president’s ...

At the end of his travels through the Melanesian world this month, Anthony Albanese finishes up in the region’s biggest nation, the one shaped and launched by Australia exactly five decades ago, on 16 ...

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National affairs Whose voice? Tim Rowse 30 June 2025 New shadow minister Kerrynne Liddle believes the rights of the vulnerable should take precedence over Indigenous rights ...

Housing affordability is the barbecue stopper of the moment. Both state and Commonwealth governments have declared it a priority. But before governments launch into policy changes, it’s worth ...

About a third of the way into John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs — a book that sets Lennon and McCartney’s platonic love affair in the context of their lyrics, melodic lines and chord structures — ...

Books & arts How to resist a tyrant Linda Jaivin 18 July 2025 If democracy is the goal, non-violence is a better bet ...

Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest is a tale of a legendary music mogul, a high-wire business deal, a kidnapping, a ransom demand for $17.5 million in Swiss francs, an ethical conundrum and a police pursuit ...

It is salutary to turn on the television on the morning after the biggest landslide to the Labor Party since 1943 and the Liberal Party’s worst-ever election defeat. We must have had Sky on by the ...

Our European ancestors locked us in a madhouse. To explain why their society was technologically more complex than others, they came up with what I call the Great Divide — the separation of the ...

Nations are built with pens and brushes not just hammers and nails. They exhibit their character in what they say about themselves as much as what is said about them. — Bruce Pascoe, Convincing Ground ...