Barry Jones, a Hawke government science minister, published Sleepers Wake!, his book about the social and economic impacts of ...

SpaceX already sells sovereignty to Australia through services supplied by its Starlink division. “Designed, owned and ...

D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda spent several months in Australia during 1922, mostly living at Thirroul, south of Sydney. There, Lawrence worked on his novel Kangaroo, which is released as a Text ...

The Cambridge-based Australian historian Christopher Clark was not unknown in Germany when he published his latest book, The Sleepwalkers. In 2010, his history of Prussia, Iron Kingdom, attracted ...

Artificial intelligence is everywhere now. And everywhere it appears, it raises questions. Artists and writers fear it will trawl their work, produce derivative products and make their creativity ...

George Santayana and Winston Churchill are remembered for warning that those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat their errors. The economist John Maynard Keynes failed to ...

Financial Times reporter Sarah O’Connor confesses to having once been a techno-optimist, confident in technology’s power to automate away dangerous, dirty and boring work. Her new book, We Are Not ...

She was a novelist and journalist, a member of the Algonquin Roundtable, a pal of Hemingway’s, and for half a century the New Yorker’s Paris correspondent. In the latter guise, she moulded the ...

Recently I came by chance upon some photographs of Mary Cook, wife of Joseph Cook, prime minister of Australia for fifteen months in 1913 and 1914. Sir Joseph is one of Australia’s least-known prime ...

The Arab world has “too much history and not enough geography.” Savour that vivid phrase, the essence of Bob Bowker’s fine new memoir of life as an Australian entranced by a Middle East that is ...

For a special “best of” season we asked long-time Inside Story contributors to choose one of their favourites among the articles they’ve written for us and add a 2026 postscript. This is Iain ...