Few things are more intuitive about the smartphone era than the fact that devices have torpedoed our interest in reading and dragged down the status that books and their authors once seemed to enjoy.

As Ridler writes, the name’s “history is changed, becoming yours, / And yours by this: who calls this, calls you.” So, the ...

Efforts to settle the maritime boundary between Vanuatu and New Caledonia continue to be blocked by France’s attachment to two uninhabited islands ...

The divide has the professional policy elite on one side and, on the other, the people. In this account, the people are the legitimate but greatly underutilised resource when it comes to policymaking.

SpaceX already sells sovereignty to Australia through services supplied by its Starlink division. “Designed, owned and ...

A huge statue of a horse stands on the shore, waves lapping around it. By rights it should be a towering figure, reared up on its hind legs, but it is half buried in sand, seemingly abandoned to the ...

Books & arts Larrikins, legends and legislators Frank Bongiorno 15 October 2025 Three new books explore the labour movement’s evolution Essays & reportage Making their political mark Frank Bongiorno ...

For a special “best of” season we asked long-time Inside Story contributors to choose one of their favourites among the articles they’ve written for us and add a 2026 postscript. This is Iain ...

This book might look like it’s about politics, but don’t be fooled: this is a story of a love gone wrong. Let me give you the Hollywood pitch. In his youth, a boy develops a crush. As a young man, he ...

Labor’s electoral mastermind Paul Erickson has reached back seventy-five years to find the right historical analogy to describe the implications of Labor’s huge win. In his campaign review at the ...

The closing submissions of counsel assisting any judicial inquiry or royal commission often give a clue to the eventual findings, and so it has been with the NSW Supreme Court’s inquiry into the ...