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

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

Sometimes in the depths of winter, when I consider trudging through a cutting wind and the promise of sleet to a strenuous fifty-minute session on the machines for muscular improvement invented by ...

Hal Wootten in his prime looked like Clark Kent, and he was indeed a kind of Superman, a “giant,” a “towering figure” to obituarists. An exceptionally long life was even more exceptionally packed with ...

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 ...

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

Towards the end of ABC TV’s special “Sovereign Borders“ edition of Q&A came an intriguing but frustrating back-and-forth about the number of migrants Australia welcomes each year. The key protagonists ...

Housing minister Clare O’Neil says it’s “just too hard” to build houses in this country because “builders face a ridiculous thicket of red tape.” That must change, she says, if we’re to tackle the ...

It is salutary to turn on the television on the morning after the biggest landslide to the Labor Party since 1943 and the Liberal Party’s worst-ever election defeat. We must have had Sky on by the ...

Nations are built with pens and brushes not just hammers and nails. They exhibit their character in what they say about themselves as much as what is said about them. — Bruce Pascoe, Convincing Ground ...