Parallel Kingdom
Nick Cave’s beautiful and tragic music brings redemptive catharsis to a grief-stricken city.
Mark Mordue
· 10 min read
Australia
A collection of 112 posts
The Australian Way of Life
Politicians reach for “our way of life” to justify immigration restrictions—but the phrase may be too vague to bear that weight.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 11 min read
The State of Grace
When an anti-Zionist worldview collides with the principle of “believe all women,” it is the principle that gives way.
Juliet Moses
· 6 min read
Why Populism is Rising in Australia: Immigration and One Nation Surge
Australia has long been considered politically stable compared with Europe and the United States. But according to political scientist Eric Kaufmann, that period of “Australian exceptionalism” may be coming to an end.
Eric Kaufmann, Zoe Sankey
· 11 min read
The End of Australian Exceptionalism
The surge in support for Australia’s populist right-wing party One Nation suggests that immigration restrictionism has become increasingly popular with voters: a political trajectory that echoes that of many other Western nations.
Eric Kaufmann
· 9 min read
An Undisciplined Novel
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s latest novel is a heavy-handed parable designed to show that Islamist radicalisation in Australia is merely a myth invented by a racist establishment. In the wake of the Bondi shooting, this seems less believable than ever.
Imre Salusinszky
· 8 min read
The Gentle Wildness of Tasmania
Tasmania looks like wilderness from afar. Up close, it is lush, intimate, and unexpectedly generous—a place that feels familiar, yet entirely its own.
Iona Italia
· 13 min read
Why Is Substack Caught Up in Australia’s Social Media Ban?
Australia’s under-16s social media ban has proven wildly popular among parents, but nevertheless it was ill conceived and comes with worrying trade-offs.
Dara Macdonald
· 7 min read
A Lucky History
Tony Abbott argues that Australia’s history provides a lot to be proud of.
Sean Welsh
· 12 min read
Australia and the Clash of Worlds
The convicts and soldiers who arrived in January 1788 had not just traversed a vast distance across the oceans; they had effectively journeyed back in time.
Iona Italia
· 7 min read
A Self-Conscious Nation
The Australian identity 125 years after Federation.
Adam Wakeling
· 15 min read
An Enlightened Beginning
An Australia Day reflection on the founding of a ‘free land.’
Tony Abbott
· 5 min read
A Different Kind of Palaver
What the Adelaide Writers’ Week fiasco reveals about the moral economy of cultural elites.
Juliet Moses
· 8 min read
The Gentle Wildness of Tasmania
Tasmania has all the majesty of other windswept high-latitude places, but it has always been less barren, more hospitable, more generous in its beauty.
Iona Italia
· 13 min read
On Ten Years
A speech marking the tenth anniversary of Quillette, delivered by founder and editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann in Sydney.
Claire Lehmann
· 4 min read