In 1939, a member of the Swedish parliament nominated Adolf Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination, though reportedly satirical, caused an international uproar and was quickly withdrawn.

Warwick McFadyen Warwick McFadyen is an award-winning journalist with more than 40 years’ experience in metropolitan media. He has held senior writing and editing positions with The Age, has won two ...

This 15 August marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Aceh peace agreement which ended three decades of separatist war in Indonesia’s western-most province.

On 19 December 2023, in Pearls and Irritations I wrote: Hamas is the excuse for the Israeli attack on Gaza. It is not the reason. The real Israeli reason and objective in Gaza is to drive out the ...

Josephine Ma is China news editor and has covered China news for the Post for more than 20 years. As a correspondent in Beijing, she reported on everything from the 2003 Sars outbreak to the riots in ...

“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Canberra Theatre. Patrons are advised that, for tonight’s performance of The Castle, the role of Mr Darryl Kerrigan will be played by Mr Vladimir Putin.” In the ...

Jack Rasmus is author of 'The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy from Reagan to Trump, Clarity Press, January 2020. He blogs at jackrasmus.com and hosts the weekly radio show, Alternative ...

Tony Lawson Board Chair, Consumers Health Forum of Australia for last 11 years. Board Director since 2010. Been actively involved in consumer health for over 2 decades. Also been involved in major ...

Dame Stella Rimington, former director-general of the UK’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, MI5, and author of several spy thrillers, has died this week, aged 90.

Tim Deere-Jones has a B.Sc. degree in Maritime Studies and has operated a Marine Pollution Research Consultancy since the 1980s focusing on the behaviour and fate of marine anthropogenic radioactivity ...

What next for Palestine? Gaza is a wasteland, a dystopian scene of devastation and starvation. The occupied West Bank is under siege from rampant Israeli settler gunmen.