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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Earlier this year, just ahead of the federal election, I emailed some routine questions to Home Affairs. I was planning an article for Inside Story about the challenge for an incoming immigration ...

Last night two of my closest friends and I bade each other goodnight in our traditional style: a hug, an exclamatory “darling” and a whispered, emphatic, “I adore you.” Sometimes these friends will ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’s economic reform roundtable may not have met everyone’s hopes or expectations. But it did achieve three things. First, it put the issue of productivity front and centre of the ...

It’s refreshing to learn that treasurer Jim Chalmers is willing to entertain more substantial tax reforms than the ones Labor took to this year’s election (principally, the proposed increases in ...

The most striking observation in Dean Spears and Michael Geruso’s new book, After the Spike, is summed up by the cover illustration, which shows a world population rising rapidly to its current eight ...

Of all the economic problems proclaimed in the run-up to next week’s economic summit, the most alarming is that business investment is very weak. “Business investment has fallen notably over the past ...