Beginning with a sense that the US could afford big and fundamental reforms, economic and public policy applied socialist principles to end poverty and racial inequality. It need hardly be said that it didn't work, as Amity Shlaes lays out in her 'Great Society: A New History'

George Pell’s plainly written daily record of the more than 400 days he spent in prison for a 'crime' that didn't happen might have been a download of anxious moments and self-pity. Instead it is a work of tough love, scholarly deliberations on religious texts and an appreciation for the small comforts of a kettle and the footy

When Enid Burnell announced her intention to marry the man who would become Australia's tenth prime minister, her family’s Methodist preacher implored her not to give up the 'faith of your father'. She was undeterred and together, by virtue of example and principle, they did much to diminish the anti-Catholicism of their era

Did Australia's then-PM fancy himself as Winston Churchill's replacement? Man of the left David Day has long insisted that was the case, yet has provided not the slightest shred of evidence to support his claim. Anne Henderson attends to his remedial education

On January 24, 1941, Australia’s Prime Minister Robert Menzies began […]