Features
- Tony Wright’s Column
- Vietnam
When Saigon fell, Dinh Nguyen was condemned to torment beyond imagining
Dinh Nguyen has lived through pain and loss inconceivable to most of us. But on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, he says he lives in heaven now.
- Tony Wright
Latest
The world is consumed by Trump’s chaos. In MAGA heartland, they’ve barely noticed
Polls show the president has lost his sheen. But from “Hog’s Haven” to a hair salon in rural Kentucky, Americans who voted for Donald Trump still think he’s their best chance.
- Michael Koziol
Festivals have ‘privileged literary works’ over popular, commercial fiction: Veronica Sullivan
As the new director of the Melbourne Writers Festival, Veronica Sullivan has tried to create a program with broad appeal.
- Kylie Northover
Troubled waters: Tasmania goes to the polls for the ‘salmon election’
Tasmania has just five federal seats. But many locals think the smallest state could be crucial to deciding who forms government in May.
- Bianca Hall
When brilliance is not enough: What it takes for an outsider to become one of the political greats
Mark Carney is leaning heavily on his outsider status in his appeal to Canadian voters, but it may not be an advantage in the long run.
- Samantha Selinger-Morris
- Explainer
- Australia votes
Gen Zs, Millennials, Boomers. Is it all just silly talk? Not at this election
Baby Boomers and their elders are outnumbered by Millennials and Gen Zs at this election. What does the shift mean for politics? And who invented “generations” anyway?
- Angus Holland
How a sense of betrayal brought a major complication to a battleground seat
At the last election, Labor won Gilmore by just 373 votes. A new player has emerged to muddy the waters.
- Nick O'Malley
The hunted and haunted outcasts who changed their new country forever
They endured war, risked death and faced down pirates. And 50 years after they began to arrive in Australia, they have left a profound mark on their new home.
- Kate Geraghty and Michael Ruffles
- Analysis
- Naked City
A hitman’s legacy: the family left devastated
Roger Wilson has been reduced to the passport photo used in police appeals for information when he disappeared, and he has become a bit player in his own life.
- John Silvester
The year the Anzacs came: the little-known story one English village still tells its children
Leighterton still relied on horse-drawn carts when a few hundred young Australians arrived in 1918, weaving their way through the skies above and into the hearts of the villagers below.
- Rob Harris
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