Professor Peter McPhee AM

Why do the French elections matter to Australia? More now due to new challenges to France’s commitment alongside Australia in the fraught geo-politics of the Indo-Pacific

The fire that struck the 850-year-old Notre Dame cathedral has devastated Parisians, and many around the world, but the building has long withstood violence whether revolution or war

Our experts tell us about their pick of the best research, discoveries and big thinking from around the world in 2018

The ‘Yellow Vest’ protestors in France are writing out books of grievances just like their forbears from the 1789 revolution in what is a critical challenge for President Macron

President Macron’s young party has won an overall majority in the French parliament, but with relatively low voter turnout their mandate for radical change isn’t absolute

Emmanual Macron has risen rapidly from little-known bureaucrat to frontrunner in the French presidential campaign

With Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen the last two candidates standing in the French election, the mainstream parties have been shunned. Our experts look at the implications.

Some of the opulent palace’s most stunning objects are on display outside Versailles for the first time, in an exhibition led by Melbourne alumnus Gerard Vaughan

Degas and the tumult of Paris in the late 1800s