Essays & Reportage
20 March 2024
Queensland premier Steven Miles is learning an old lesson about sporting venues: sometimes it is best to love the ones you have
International
9 February 2024
Will burgeoning cricket franchises kill the institutions they rely on?
Correspondents
24 November 2023
The Solomon Islands prime minister has played off China and the West remarkably well
National Affairs
2 November 2022
Once a key player in Rupert Murdoch’s Australian empire, Ken Cowley ended up on the outer
Books & Arts
27 September 2022
Does sport have anything to teach Australian schools?
Books & Arts
5 September 2022
Does bowing out involve a kind of “self-discipline normally associated with persistence”?
Essays & Reportage
6 August 2021
Sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya’s bid for asylum in Tokyo is a reminder of how the 1956 Melbourne Games were riven by politics
National Affairs
12 June 2021
Buying the Sydney Swans bolstered the swashbuckling 1980s image of medical entrepreneur Geoffrey Edelsten, who died this week
Correspondents
13 April 2021
Our correspondent detects parallels between the fortunes of German football and the travails of the Merkel government
National Affairs
25 June 2020
What happens when sport moves from the back pages to the front?
Correspondents
26 February 2020
Japan approaches its Olympics across a tightrope of risk
From the archive
6 November 2019
Melbourne’s Olympic year sums up why the fifties weren’t as dull as you might think
Books & Arts
9 August 2019
Cinema | The mob turns nasty in Diego Maradona and The Final Quarter
Recovered Lives
8 March 2019
Helen Australia (Nellie) Gregory (1863–1950) and Louisa Caroline Gregory (1865–1903), cricketers
Recovered Lives
7 March 2019
Sadie Cambridge (1899–1968), ice-skating champion and coach
Books & Arts
14 August 2018
Books | George Megalogenis gives a vivid account of the development Australian rules football. But what does it mean for politics?
Correspondents
12 August 2018
Why did Mesut Özil, one of the most talented footballers of his generation, decide to quit playing for his home country?
National Affairs
7 July 2018
Are we seeing the destruction by stealth of the anti-siphoning rules?
From the archive
4 February 2018
Despite the sceptics, Melbourne’s Australian Open has become the biggest and best on the Grand Slam circuit
Books & Arts
26 October 2016
Books | James Button’s tale of a football club made good has all the elements of classical drama
Essays & Reportage
21 October 2016
Postwar migrants brought from Europe ideas that helped shape Australian culture and industry, including the country’s early ski resorts
Essays & Reportage
11 August 2016
Tom Bamforth discovers the afterlife of Melbourne’s Olympic village
Books & Arts
8 August 2016
Television | It’s best to be in two minds about the Olympics, writes Jane Goodall
National Affairs
23 June 2015
Talks between the Australian Football League, the National Rugby League and the biggest digital companies highlight the pressures on free-to-air broadcasters, writes Brett Hutchins
Correspondents
24 July 2014
The Commonwealth Games meet a host city in flux, says David Hayes
Essays & Reportage
24 July 2014
Germany and its football team have evolved in tandem over the past six-and-a-half decades. Klaus Neumann traces the story from the 1954 “Miracle of Bern” to…
Correspondents
12 June 2014
The identity of Britain’s largest nation is a live question during every World Cup, says David Hayes
Books & Arts
20 May 2014
What is the cost of feeding our national appetites? Jane Goodall watches ABC TV one Monday night
Books & Arts
6 May 2014
The Australian Open pivots to Asia, writes Jock Given
Books & Arts
7 November 2013
A new book unpacks the complex relationship between politics and football in Spain, writes Scott Ewing