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New Zealand Labour, led by Jacinda Ardern, surges in polls
The Jacinda Ardern tsunami has swept Labour into the lead in polling over National, giving her a huge boost as the leaders prepare to square off in their first televised debate.
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Mystery of missing French explorer La Perouse may have been cracked by ANU researcher
It's the high-seas mystery that's confounded historians for almost 200 years: what happened to the famous French navigator Comte de La Pérouse?
Peter FitzSimons: When will the madness end?
So, I've got this right, yes? On the one hand, we have the Catholic Church maintaining it will make no change in its protocol about the sanctity of the confessional. And it maintains that, despite the fact that – as just revealed by the Criminal Justice report by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse – it has presided over cases like the one in Rockhampton where Father Michael McArdle was forgiven no fewer than 1500 times by 30 of his fellow priests for raping children in his care.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Next Generation: Solomon Islands After RAMSI and Provenance at Photoaccess
Pairing these shows opens discourse on portraits as individual disclosure and representing a group.
- by Peter Haynes
Canberra Times letters to the editor: Irony in Catholic threats
Has the church considered who will suffer most if they carry out their hiring and firing threats?
Brandis leads where Coalition fears to follow
I didn't think Senator Brandis had it in him. You didn't think Senator Brandis had it in him. But, he did.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons: I don't want to talk about the Wallabies
But allow me to at least say this.
- by Peter FitzSimons
China's global ambitions: are there lessons to be learnt from Tibet?
Could Chinese infrastructure be a Trojan horse for Chinese takeover of foreign countries?
- by Peter Hartcher
Section 44 dual citizenship controversy reveals flaws in our political system
The dual citizenship controversy has been a debacle for our political system.
- by John Warhurst
Bill Shorten is only the lesser of two evils
Here's a question in light of the near disintegration of the parliamentary process in the past week: what do the late Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard, and Jeff Kennett have in common?
- by Tony Walker
God save the Queen and protect us from an overbearing republic
In my nightmare the Republic of Australia celebrations are over.