Australia knows gambling advertising causes harm. Yet political compromise continues to protect the industry's most valuable ...

In recent years, there has been considerable scholarly and political attention to the worry that citizens of many democracies increasingly inhabit different “worlds.” This fear is acute in the United ...

Created to investigate corruption in government, Australia's anti-corruption commission now finds its own independence and ...

As America marks its 250th year, its greatest achievement may be a culture that relentlessly reinvented literature, producing ...

Benjamin Disraeli, writer, wit and British Prime Minister (1874–80), is still noted for his bons mots. The oft-quoted expression ‘Never complain. Never explain,’ is attributed to him, but my favourite ...

Predictions of population catastrophe have shaped public policy for more than two centuries. Yet again and again, the experts ...

A Bill before Parliament would rewrite key principles of the NDIS, expanding ministerial discretion while narrowing access to ...

Ask anyone who works in Victoria’s youth justice system about the children they meet behind the walls, and the similarities in their stories are striking. No two children have exactly the same story, ...

Australia's proposed capital gains tax reforms promise a fairer system, but will they help finance the breakthrough ...

Two memoirs reveal that child sexual abuse is never an isolated crime. Its damage radiates through families, institutions and generations, while courage, care and truth-telling slowly reclaim lives ...