National affairs
10 June 2025
A government falls in Tasmania as debate redoubles over a costly AFL-imposed stadium
Books & arts
13 September 2024
The rise and fall of an experiment in self-directed learning
Books & arts
25 June 2024
A chance find opened up a hidden world to historian Cassandra Pybus
Books & arts
28 June 2012
Ian McShane reviews Henry Reynolds’s new history of his home state
Books & arts
15 November 2011
Ian McShane reviews Natasha Cica’s account of the life of wilderness photographer Olegas Truchanas and his role in the campaign to save Lake Pedder
Books & arts
21 June 2011
Two new books look at the places where social ecologies take root and flourish, writes Ian McShane
Books & arts
23 December 2010
Ian McShane reviews Andrew Leigh’s book about social capital in Australia
Essays & reportage
3 March 2010
Should the loud and proud rhetoric of public libraries be reconsidered, asks Ian McShane
National affairs
21 September 2009
Ignore the squabbling over school signs. What will be the long term legacy of the federal government’s education revolution, asks Ian McShane
Books & arts
18 May 2009
What role should local museums have in remembering events like the Victorian bushfires, asks Ian McShane