Unlike the looming election, the great British airport debate has seemingly become a two horse race. Should Gatwick gain a second runway or Heathrow a third? In truth, either solution will still put Britain’s hard-won market leadership at risk.

Clearly more...

Between Worlds, Tansy Davies’s operatic dramatisation of 9/11, has prompted very mixed reactions since it opened at London’s Barbican. Critics have variously described it as “an orgy of tedious breast-beating”, said that it “tears at...

Julie Bishop’s high profile as foreign minister must surely be rivalling that of Kevin Rudd.

Bishop’s visit to Iran – she’s the first Australian minister to go there in more than a decade – has received a blaze of publicity at home.

Her headwear – sequined scarf, black hat, aimed at showing respect for local norms...