Kartlis Deda (or Mother of Georgia) is a twenty-metre statue of a woman holding a cup of wine in one hand and a sword in the ...

Donald Trump has yet to take office but he has already upended Canadian politics. His opening move came on 25 November, when he announced that on his first day in office he would impose 25 per cent ...

International Not only did Harris lose… Peter Brent 18 November 2024 With the results near-final, what do we now know about the shifting preferences of American voters? Correspondents Historic gender ...

Should we have seen it coming? With the benefit of hindsight, Donald Trump’s victory seems to have been inevitable, and the excitement of journalists reporting a closely contested presidential ...

Books & arts In the face of death Jacinta Halloran 1 November 2024 Life’s binaries bleed into each other in a spirited memoir shadowed by a terminal illness ...

Correspondents The significance of 1 September Klaus Neumann 2 September 2019 A closely watched election campaign unfolds in an East German state ...

If song lyrics were treated as poetry, Taylor Swift would be the most popular poet in history. She even invokes the romantic image of the poète maudit — the cursed poet; the poet who is mad, bad and ...

Essays & reportage People-watching in Port Moresby Gordon Peake 14 September 2024 Our correspondent reacquaints himself with the PNG capital, a place getting a lot more attention these days ...

The sudden collapse of the Assad regime is one of those “in retrospect it was inevitable but no one saw it coming” moments. Exactly where it leaves Syria is still unclear, so it is also one of those ...

Peter Dutton’s declaration that he will not stand next to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags turns the arc of Australian history off the path it seemed to be on thirty years ago. Then, in ...

National affairs Manufacturing’s security blanket Saul Eslake 26 August 2024 Labor’s Future Made in Australia policy risks entrenching opaque subsidies in a favoured sector ...