Captured and shipped to Australia, many would return home after the war to restart what in many cases proved to be lustrous careers. Because many of their achievements were significant, and because they lived here, it’s appropriate to know something about them

Nick Hasluck succeeded in establishing himself as a novelist of note while pursuing a career in law that led to a seat on the Supreme Court of Western Australia. His latest book is a first-hand account of the world he experienced in England and on the Continent through the mid-1960s

A conservative historian David Kemp is not, as his treatment of Eureka, to cite but one example, makes abundantly clear. His approach both rescues the rebellion from Marxist historians and shows it for what it really was: the triumph of a democratic, individualist and revolutionary liberalism

Since Trump's election the centre of gravity in the Republican Party has moved in the direction of the lower-middle and working classes. As ballots in the November 6 midterms are cast and tallied, a guide to the lineage of the lubbers, hicks, crackers and obsquatulators who may well decide it

The dictator was not 'demonic', as biographer Stephen Kotin would have it, but pathological, psychopathic, paranoid, criminal and perverse. That is one of a few small quibbles with an author whose magisterial, three-volume work will deservedly be recognised as the gold standard

In the televised interviews with Richard Nixon conducted by David […]

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One Nation’s policies, whatever one thinks of them, constitute a clear set of alternatives to the status quo, while Team Xenophon has emerged as an option for many whose choice might otherwise be expressed as 'none of the above'. Something very new appears to have begun

January is the silly season, that time of the year when news organisations give undue prominence to follies and the fanciful. In 1987, as temperatures soared, Joh Bjelke-Petersen launched his bid to conquer Canberra and silliness strode the country on stilts