Five genre-bending drama series made keenly anticipated returns to television this year, all of them meeting expectations convincingly enough to ensure a further season. Clearing the hurdle for ...

Books & arts Roaring back Jane Goodall 30 March 2024 A major new series about the postwar world poses the inevitable question: has the cold war returned? Books & arts Twilight of the Golden Age? Jane ...

Books & arts The Indo-Pacific’s new age of power politics Graeme Dobell 29 October 2025 Southeast Asia has moved to the centre of China–US rivalry ...

Over the past few years, though, I have watched versions of reckoning with China unfold across very different milieus, each shaped by a unique vantage point. For Kaiser’s generation of American ...

National affairs Pharmaceutical warfare Lesley Russell 24 March 2025 How far will the Trump administration follow Big Pharma in targeting Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme? International ...

Since 2006, the Economist Intelligence Unit has measured the quality of democracy in 167 countries and territories across the world. Its last index, for 2024, was published in February. Over the past ...

If the biggest political surprise in 2025 was the Albanese government’s emphatic re-election, the second has been the gradual surge in One Nation support since then. From a disappointing election ...

As universally expected, today’s Reserve Bank monetary policy board meeting decided (unanimously) to leave the cash rate unchanged at 3.60 per cent, where it has been since August. But the Board’s ...

Christian Swegal’s Sovereign (Amazon Prime) moves with quiet inevitability towards a terrible conclusion. Tense, difficult and deeply confronting, it is an emotionally precise film. This is tragedy ...

International Can the world be governed without the US? Michael Jacobs 5 July 2025 A UN conference discovers the absence of the United States can be an opportunity rather than a hindrance ...