Tim Rowse is an Emeritus Professorial Fellow in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University.
National affairs
Whose voice?
Tim Rowse
30 June 2025
New shadow minister Kerrynne Liddle believes the rights of the vulnerable should take precedence over Indigenous rights
Books & arts
All in the family
Tim Rowse
14 April 2025
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has built a political philosophy on her family’s efforts to reconcile the past and the future
Essays & reportage
Lidia Thorpe, the UN Declaration and the mob out there
Tim Rowse
20 March 2025
Despite her weakness for hyperbole, the high-profile senator has proposed a simple way of bringing greater Indigenous scrutiny to parliament
Books & arts
Why did Australia reject the Voice?
Tim Rowse
28 June 2024
Three books, two articles and a report offer a range of explanations
Books & arts
Voices off
Tim Rowse
15 February 2024
What does the experience of the Ngaanyatjarra community tells us about the bipartisan promise of regional Voices?
Essays & reportage
A steady path to sovereignty?
Tim Rowse
6 October 2023
The Voice debate has opened up the complexity of First Nations political thought
National affairs
Yes and No: the official (but curiously incomplete) cases
Tim Rowse
19 July 2023
Neither of the Voice to Parliament pamphlets rises to the occasion
Books & arts
Three “bloody difficult” subjects
Tim Rowse
4 July 2023
Historian Ruth Ross, the Waitangi Treaty and historical mythmaking are the subjects of a provocative account of New Zealand’s founding document that throws light on Australian…
National affairs
The referendum’s lines in the sand
Tim Rowse
19 May 2023
If the parliamentary committee is any guide, representation and risk have become the sharpest dividing lines in the Voice debate
National affairs
The translator
Tim Rowse
5 April 2023
A capacity to enable fruitful cross-cultural interaction was among the strengths of Yolngu leader Yunupingu, who died last weekend
National affairs
Albo room
Tim Rowse
27 March 2023
The debate over the revised wording of the Voice amendment misses a key point: this is a referendum like no other
Books & arts
Where No meets Yes
Tim Rowse
14 February 2023
Opponents of a constitutionally enshrined Voice warn of many of the features that most attract its proponents
National affairs
Peter Dutton’s questions
Tim Rowse
23 January 2023
Have critics overlooked what the opposition leader didn’t ask?
National affairs
Price and Pearson, uneasy allies?
Tim Rowse
23 December 2022
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Noel Pearson’s clash over the Voice masks a more complicated picture
National affairs
The Voice: not enough “meat on the bone”?
Tim Rowse
27 September 2022
Are fears of a repeat of the 1999 republic referendum influencing the campaign for an Indigenous Voice?
Books & arts
Thinking Black
Tim Rowse
11 January 2022
A new biography shows how William Cooper set out to civilise white Australia
From the archive
Noel Pearson, radical centrist
Tim Rowse
30 November 2021
During more than thirty years of public commentary the Aboriginal leader has charted his own course
Essays & reportage
Telling truths
Tim Rowse
10 September 2021
What will emerge from an Indigenous-led process of truth-telling?
Books & arts
A Liberal’s case for the Voice to Parliament
Tim Rowse
9 July 2021
Andrew Bragg is on the right side of the debate, but the gaps in his argument are revealing
Books & arts
The teller and the tale
Tim Rowse
16 June 2021
What is Indigenous knowledge and who has it? Tim Rowse reviews Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s critique of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu
Essays & reportage
The 1967 referendum: inspiration or burden?
Tim Rowse
27 May 2021
The overwhelming Yes vote still grips our imagination
Books & arts
The moral complexity of truth-telling
Tim Rowse
26 February 2021
Books | Two historians respond to the Uluru Statement’s challenge
Essays & reportage
Is the Voice already being muted?
Tim Rowse
1 February 2021
As we enter stage two of the co-design process, the government seems already to be shaping the result
Books & arts
Very like, and very unlike
Tim Rowse
17 December 2013
As two Australian books show, the European Enlightenment rested partly on a global traffic of persons between widely separated spaces
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