Prime ministerial memoirs are many things: part recollection, part self-justification, part confession. They are always about legacy (why else would you spend the […]

Dennis Altman’s and Jonathan Symons’ work Queer Wars is a timely and accessible intervention on the global state of play for queer rights. Queer politics is […]

Australia’s diplomatic engagement with China didn’t start with Gough Whitlam. It is worth remembering those early diplomats who served faithfully in Chungking during […]

Australia and Canada are divided by a vast ocean, the pronunciation of a common language and unequal capacities […]

As someone who has lived in and studied Syria, its history, culture and people, I was attracted to Samer Abboud’s personal engagement with […]

While the catastrophes of Rwanda, Srebrenica and Kosovo in the 1990s provided the recent focus for the international community’s response to the protection […]

Injustices continue to be perpetrated upon the people of West Papua. Consequently, there continue to be calls by well-meaning outsiders and by West […]

Only a couple of decades ago, scholarly interest in India–Japan relations was almost non-existent. Since the turn of the century and especially in […]

The failed coup attempt of 15 July 2016 and what happened afterwards has made Michalis Michael’s book, which in part focuses on the […]

Fiction can provide a window into current anxieties and possible futures. This chronicle of the trials of a fictional US family achieves both. […]