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Essays & reportage Anne-Marie Condé 6 December 2024 Great Australians brought freshly researched history by fine writers and historians to a generation of Australians
Essays & reportage Alessandro Antonello 6 December 2024 A centennial re-watching of the cinema of ice Correspondents Nic Maclellan 6 December 2024 A government collapses in Paris, and the shockwaves extend as far as Nouméa Books & arts Joshua Black and Frank Bongiorno 5 December 2024 The former British PM’s highly readable memoir is just a little too tidy
Books & arts Sara Dowse 3 December 2024 A novelist reflects on “exile as agony but also as ethical position” Books & arts Bernard Wasserstein 2 December 2024 Strategies and the battlefield take centre-stage in an often gripping history of the First World War’s eastern front

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National affairs

National affairs William Maley 6 December 2024 Pauline Hanson is wrong and Fatima Payman right about the question of eligibility
National affairs Peter Browne 29 November 2024 Do partisan voters really inhabit separate realities? National affairs Graeme Orr 19 November 2024 Big parties versus the rest? Our assessment of the government’s plans National affairs Mark Baker 12 November 2024 Fifty-six years later, a soldier finally receives his Victoria Cross. Was it all a matter of timing? National affairs Paul Strangio 8 November 2024 What lessons should Labor take away from the Democratic Party’s defeat?

Essays & reportage

Essays & reportage Erica Benner 29 November 2024 Outsiders promoting political liberalisation in an impatient or immodest spirit shouldn’t be surprised by a backlash
Essays & reportage Ray Edmondson 29 November 2024 How the battle for a National Film and Sound Archive came to a head Essays & reportage Helen Ennis 22 November 2024 Photographer Max Dupain returned from the war determined to reinvent himself and his work Essays & reportage Hamish McDonald 22 November 2024 A judicial inquiry has been told of withheld evidence that would have fundamentally challenged the case against the Croatian Six Essays & reportage Frank Bongiorno 19 November 2024 How have Australians remembered politics?

Books & arts

Books & arts Antonia Finnane 25 November 2024 Yuan Yang profiles a new generation of Chinese women
Books & arts Jeremy Gans 25 November 2024 SBS’s The Jury: Death on the Staircase goes further than most courtroom experiments, and the results are all the more interesting Books & arts Ken Haley 24 November 2024 A new history of the original superpower Books & arts Marian Quartly 22 November 2024 Could the Yirrkala Petitions best be understood as an attempt at communication between nations? Books & arts Jane Goodall 22 November 2024 The Day of the Jackal and The Diplomat reviewed

International

International Tony Walker 6 December 2024 Australia’s vote on Gaza this week highlights a decades-long shift in the major parties’ attitudes towards Israel
International Mark Baker 22 November 2024 Once again Britain stands by while China breaches the two countries’ agreement on Hong Kong International Peter Brent 18 November 2024 With the results near-final, what do we now know about the shifting preferences of American voters? International Peter Brent 5 November 2024 After two presidential misfires in a row, the polls are under intense scrutiny ahead of tomorrow’s vote International Saul Eslake 24 October 2024 All signs suggest that China is in the grip of a long, self-induced economic slowdown

Correspondents

Correspondents David Hayes 25 November 2024 British Labour’s early missteps are sullying its promise of renewal. The prime minister, unmoved, is reaching for the stars
Correspondents Michael Jacobs 25 November 2024 Another cliffhanger climate conference achieves a kind of progress Correspondents Michael Jacobs 21 November 2024 While COP29 meets in Baku G20 leaders have been making their own decisions in Rio Correspondents Nic Maclellan 15 November 2024 France has delayed elections in New Caledonia to enable negotiations on a new political statute. But what happens if a deal can’t be struck? Correspondents Michael Jacobs 10 November 2024 As the UN conference opens in Baku, Azerbaijan, what difference will Donald Trump’s election make?