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Discussions of Australia's peculiar discomfort with visible success typically start with entrepreneurs who leave for the United States, or executives accused of getting ahead of themselves. Those are undoubtedly real examples, and ones worth taking seriously in their own right, but they are downstream of something that starts much earlier and gets far less attention. Long before anyone is founding a company or running a business, Australian schoolchildren are already…

Every generation of Australians seems to discover anti-Americanism for the first time, certain that its objections are a uniquely justified response to the uniquely bad behaviour of whichever president happens to occupy the White House. Donald Trump's approval ratings in Australia are now the worst ever recorded for an American president, which mainstream commentary seems to treat as a self-evident verdict: the tariffs, the erratic diplomacy, the war in Iran.…

It is easy, perhaps emotionally satisfying, for the Liberal Party to blame the teal independents. They make convenient villains, ones who are affluent, inner-suburban, climate-conscious, professionally polished and effective at winning seats that once seemed permanently Liberal. Their campaigns have benefited from a sophisticated network of donors and organisers, most visibly through Climate 200. The teals are not apolitical neighbours who wandered innocently into Parliament House. Like any other political…

In an extraordinary and historic development, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a dictator accused of rampant corruption, authoritarian rule and masterminding an international drug trafficking network, has been captured by the United States and transported to New York. The events of January 3 have rocked the geopolitical landscape of Latin America, striking at the heart of one of the region's most entrenched and destructive regimes. For over a decade, Venezuelans suffered…