Books & arts
28 June 2024
Three books, two articles and a report offer a range of explanations
Books & arts
15 February 2024
What does the experience of the Ngaanyatjarra community tells us about the bipartisan promise of regional Voices?
Essays & reportage
6 October 2023
The Voice debate has opened up the complexity of First Nations political thought
National affairs
19 July 2023
Neither of the Voice to Parliament pamphlets rises to the occasion
Books & arts
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
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
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
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
14 February 2023
Opponents of a constitutionally enshrined Voice warn of many of the features that most attract its proponents
National affairs
23 January 2023
Have critics overlooked what the opposition leader didn’t ask?
National affairs
23 December 2022
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Noel Pearson’s clash over the Voice masks a more complicated picture
National affairs
27 September 2022
Are fears of a repeat of the 1999 republic referendum influencing the campaign for an Indigenous Voice?
Books & arts
11 January 2022
A new biography shows how William Cooper set out to civilise white Australia
From the archive
30 November 2021
During more than thirty years of public commentary the Aboriginal leader has charted his own course
Essays & reportage
10 September 2021
What will emerge from an Indigenous-led process of truth-telling?
Books & arts
9 July 2021
Andrew Bragg is on the right side of the debate, but the gaps in his argument are revealing
Books & arts
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
27 May 2021
The overwhelming Yes vote still grips our imagination
Books & arts
26 February 2021
Books | Two historians respond to the Uluru Statement’s challenge
Essays & reportage
1 February 2021
As we enter stage two of the co-design process, the government seems already to be shaping the result
Books & arts
17 December 2013
As two Australian books show, the European Enlightenment rested partly on a global traffic of persons between widely separated spaces
Books & arts
3 October 2011
Tim Rowse reviews an account of the debate about Indigenous communities in remote Australia
Books & arts
23 June 2011
Let’s allow our history to be complicated, argues Tim Rowse in this review of two new books about black–white relations