Of all the economic problems proclaimed in the run-up to next week’s economic summit, the most alarming is that business investment is very weak. “Business investment has fallen notably over the past ...

John Edwards is a Non Resident Fellow of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and an Adjunct Professor with the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University. He is a former ...

Books & arts Dropping out, burning out, tuning out Andrew Dean 27 June 2025 Nobody’s happy about the state of Australian universities, but a seasoned academic has some remedies ...

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 ...

In his new collection of eight wide-ranging essays, the distinguished photographer Michael Collins makes a plea for the art of close observation. The viewer’s role is to look, not merely to glance and ...

An evolving monument of Australian foreign policy has reached its thirteenth volume. Now covering the seven decades from 1950 to 2020, Australia in World Affairs is sustained and shepherded by the ...

A journalist since 1971, Graeme Dobell has been writing about international affairs for Inside Story since 2011.

Less than a year ago a little band of educators travelled to Canada to investigate why that country always seems to be ahead of Australia in the school achievement and equity stakes. The travellers ...

One recent summer’s afternoon my wife and I were finishing a picnic with friends overlooking the North Saskatchewan River, with the prairie stretching out to the horizon in all directions. Our host ...

Chris Bonnor is an education writer, speaker, advocate and former NSW principal. He has served as President of the NSW Secondary Principals’ Council and is author of The Stupid Country and What Makes ...

What happened when the satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer, who died on Saturday at ninety-seven, came to puritanical Adelaide in 1960?

The world’s highest court has just given the Australian government a giant climate headache. For all the rhetorical, political and practical support Australia offers the small Pacific island ...