Washington’s ambitions in the region aren’t going unopposed. Among the groups challenging the dominant narrative of the Micronesian islands as “the tip of the spear” for the US military in the western ...

National affairs The Senate’s status seekers Karen Middleton 30 May 2025 Having lost Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to the Liberals, the National Party has tried to entice at least one senator from the ...

Nic Maclellan, a correspondent for Islands Business magazine and other regional media, is Inside Story ’s Pacific affairs correspondent.

Chris Bonnor is an education writer, speaker, advocate and former NSW principal. He has served as President of the NSW Secondary Principals’ Council and is author of The Stupid Country and What Makes ...

Books & arts Alone like a finger Nick Haslam 13 June 2025 It was writing that “separated me from everything,” says German writer Judith Hermann in a captivating collection of biographical essays ...

Essays & reportage Beyond words Iain Topliss 18 December 2024 Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

The story of Elizabeth Macarthur, a driving force in early New South Wales, highlights some of the gaps in the story of colonial Australia, writes Michelle Scott Tucker ...

Attitudes towards a more generous refugee resettlement program are influenced by beliefs about how many migrants arrive each year. But making the calculation isn’t straightforward ...

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz is a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina through her mother, whose father was Lumbee and mother German. Her own father was also German, she tells us, so her ...

Throughout last year, Western Sydney Liberals from non-English-speaking backgrounds pleaded privately for Peter Dutton to tone down his language about the war in Gaza. Alongside his uncompromising ...

Is there a better way? To begin with, we need to recognise that school education alone is not a sufficient basis for participating in the modern workforce or in increasingly technologically ...