“Scarborough Fair” is what Ellen Stekert calls a “go around song,” one that is passed from singer to singer, down centuries, across oceans, shape-shifting all the while. “Go around songs” shed and ...

If citizens don’t have confidence in their public services, at least on balance, they will be more reluctant to pay taxes and the extent and quality of services will spiral downwards. It’s worth ...

Does anyone remember “American carnage”? In his 2017 inaugural address Donald Trump portrayed a collapsing society, emphasising in particular the “crime and gangs and drugs” destroying America’s ...

When Albanese’s eviction legislation passed in June 2023, Russia asked the High Court to put the repossession on hold until it could rule on the legislation’s validity. Justice Jayne Jagot rejected ...

A particularly important contributor to increasing wealth inequality across age groups has been the decline in home ownership rates among younger households. Australia’s home ownership rate declined ...

This is not, as Rodgers always announced at the start of his programs, a beautiful day in the neighbourhood. It’s a horrible, no good, very bad day, and those days keep on coming. It’s not just what ...

Trump’s vengeance — for that is what it surely is — has been directed primarily at Columbia University (perhaps because his businesses have been engaged in a real estate battle with the university) ...

An enduring theme in Australian elections is the interplay between federal and state politics. In the case of the recent election, it was widely suggested that Victoria’s long-term Labor government ...

How an Arnhem Land community distilled the 1948 American–Australian Scientific Expedition into a figure with unusual powers ...