Viewers who wanted those channels could watch the Sydney versions via the 10 Play app or website. The Seven, Nine, ABC and SBS over-the-air signals would still be available in the area. This was what ...

Books & arts The art of disagreeing Jock Given 23 August 2021 “We should be civil with those we don’t know, and aim to know them well enough that we can be uncivil,” argues a new book From the archive ...

Books & arts Essential services Paddy Gourley 12 June 2025 Celebrated American author Michael Lewis brings together an emblematic group of public servants ...

The post-American world arrived with a bang when Donald Trump declared a pox on Pax Americana. The gradual erosion of American leadership went into hyperdrive because Trump sees international ...

Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts ...

The obituaries for former Treasury secretary and National Party senator John Stone — who died last week at the age of ninety-six — have so far focused on his thirty-year career as a public servant, ...

How excited and nervous those women scientists must have been in 1939, those seven percenters. How very, very keen. Keen as ...

And yet, as Marcel Dirsus shows in How Tyrants Fall, there are still ways of bringing them down. Dirsus draws on a global range of examples to illustrate the extreme lengths to which dictators must go ...

For well over a decade, Australian policy-makers, journalists and commentators have been absorbed by the question of whether governments have the capacity for significant reform. Can they deliver the ...

Daniel Kehlmann’s The Director, translated from the German by Ross Benjamin, is a deft, dark, densely packed tale of compromise and capitulation. Kehlmann depicts choices made in the grimmest of ...

Robert Irwin’s title, The Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting, overdoes it, but this book is certainly not one for stamp collectors. They are warned off in the opening lines. The author, who died last ...