For most, Australia’s Great War began before dawn on 25 April 1915 when the first diggers stumbled ashore at Anzac Cove to begin a nine-month misadventure that would claim 8700 Australian lives, end in a humiliating retreat and yet forge an unshakeable mythology of Australian pluck and heroism.

In the shade of Gallipoli, what hope was there for the celebration of anoth...

Opening his account of the latest Resolve Political Monitor (conducted 9–14 March), Age and Sydney Morning Herald chief political correspondent James Massola informed readers that “A rampant One Nation has begun takin...

Among the millions of Asians bombed in the months following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 were two small boys. It was nothing personal. The air forces of imperial Japan had not taken out a contract on nine-year-old Amartya Sen in Kolkata (Calcutta in those days) or eleven-year-old Wang Gungwu in Ipoh in northwestern Malaysia (Malaya then). They were simply part ...

Women in the Liberal Party are sick of the politics of there-there. They’ve had enough of being told — for generations — that their role is important, that their contribution is valued and that more of them should absolutely gain powerful positions, while the men who already have them use structures and systems to ensure they don’t.

Opposition leader Sussan Ley’s decis...

Quentin Blake, knighted for “services to illustration” in January this year, is probably the most prolific and successful British illustrator of all. The first of his more than 300 books, A Drink of Water, appeared in 1960, and he went on to provide the drawings for such children’s classics as How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen (Russell Hoba...