Gallipoli and the Armenian genocide

Last month, the federal parliament passed the most important media laws in 20 years. The laws allow newspaper owners to move into free-to-air television; they allow television owners to purchase a newspaper chain. Before their passage, controversy arose …

Islamism, Islamophobia and Australia

Constitutional conservatives often suggest that there once existed a Golden Age in Australia when the Westminster principle of ministerial responsibility was scrupulously honoured. Defenders of the Howard government usually claim that there has been no …

How John Howard has changed Australia

2005 was the warmest year in the history of Australia and the second warmest in the history of the Earth since records have been kept. Ten of the Earth’s 11 warmest years have occurred since 1990. The European summer of 2003 was so hot that, according …

The last word on Mark Latham, the man everyone is hearing but no one is listening to

How an Australian citizen was wrongfully incarcerated in immigration detention

How a lovestruck teenager, an angry man and an ambitious baron made sure bad news was no news on the path to Iraq

‘Dead Europe’ by Christos Tsiolkas