Newly released documents reveal the intelligence community in the early 1970s through the eyes of a former senior bureaucrat

Has feckless Australia set itself up for a post-boom slump? Two new books see the prospects quite differently In June 1853, Karl Marx wrote a dispatch for the New York Daily Tribune under the title “Revolution in China and Europe.” Written in the teeth of recent defeats – Marx had described the Parisian uprising in...

The ABC’s international broadcasting to the Pacific islands is being devastated by the latest round of staffing cuts We’re sitting on the grass in the village of Matangi on the island of Futuna. This is one of the more isolated communities in Vanuatu, a small group of houses on a small island at the southeastern...

The Australian waded into the tobacco packaging debate with a series of blunt assertions, then responded to the counter-evidence by digging in. On 6 June this year, the front page of Murdoch’s local flagship, the Australian, was dominated by an “exclusive” report headlined, “Evidence ‘World’s Toughest Anti-Smoking Laws’ Not Working: Labor’s Plain Packaging Fails As...

Tennant Creek has developed innovative ways of dealing with social media. But the initiatives are languishing, partly for lack of funding. Aboriginal elders and parents in Tennant Creek became disturbed during 2012 by reports that kids had been involved in cyberbullying, something they knew little about. Local authorities told them their children had been texting...