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Books & arts
The poets’ war
Patrick Mullins
25 July 2024
Can six soldier poets help us understand the first world war anew?
Books & arts
Upwardly mobile
Martha Macintyre
22 July 2024
PNG locals responded with ingenuity as Digicel fuelled a fast-expanding mobile market
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American innocence
Jane Goodall
18 July 2024
A British writer and a British star have produced a quintessential story rooted in an American TV tradition
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Reframing Gauguin
Kate Fullagar
17 July 2024
Nicholas Thomas asks new questions about the women and cultures represented in the French artist’s work
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How Australia does security and foreign policy
Graeme Dobell
11 July 2024
A nation with its own continent looks at the world via geography and culture
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An extra-ordinary collaboration
Michelle Staff
9 July 2024
Two institutions have joined forces to open up Australian history using storied objects
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Becoming Ella
Andrew Ford
8 July 2024
Despite her clean-living reputation, the great American singer was a risk taker
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Marinating in liberalism
Peter Mares
6 July 2024
Can this philosophical tradition offer a blueprint for a just society?
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Powerful perpetrators
Denis Muller
3 July 2024
Anne Manne illuminates Newcastle’s web of child-abuse perpetrators, enablers and bystanders
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Fear and loathing in the American alliance
Hamish McDonald
3 July 2024
Australia is sleepwalking into a strategic and logistical mess
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Why did Australia reject the Voice?
Tim Rowse
28 June 2024
Three books, two articles and a report offer a range of explanations
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Indecisive moments
Richard Johnstone
25 June 2024
AI photos are there aplenty, but who is slowing down to look at them?
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Hobart’s gentleman body-snatchers
Ian McShane
25 June 2024
A chance find opened up a hidden world to historian Cassandra Pybus
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Spy, accomplice, ghostwriter
Zora Simic
21 June 2024
How did people go missing in a historian’s family?
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Brutal birth
Hamish McDonald
20 June 2024
Indonesia’s emergence was both more violent and more pioneering than commonly imagined
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Loves of her life
Sylvia Martin
20 June 2024
Monte Punshon, the Japanophile once dubbed “the world’s oldest lesbian,” embraced the limelight in old age
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Privilege’s alchemy
Dean Ashenden
14 June 2024
Money might bestow enormous power, but is the triumph of the wealthy complete?
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Cross-class coupling
Sara Dowse
13 June 2024
What can cross-class relationships tell us about Australia’s semi-visible inequalities?
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Bach to the future
Andrew Ford
12 June 2024
The drive for musical authenticity needn’t always reach back
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The power of shame
Nick Haslam
5 June 2024
What can the psychology of this powerful emotion reveal about political life?
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Bingil Bay Bastard
Morag Fraser
4 June 2024
From a “pinch of guilt” emerges a fine-grained biography of a bohemian figure during a vital period of environmental activism
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Living with loss
Kate Fullagar
28 May 2024
What brought the Age of Enlightenment to an end?
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He’s not the Messiah
Robert Phiddian
23 May 2024
A former prime minister ponders providence
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Citizen capitalists
Susan Sheridan
21 May 2024
A family history doubles as a chronicle of a certain kind of South Australian
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Oh, Sir Roger!
Jim Davidson
20 May 2024
The extraordinary life — and death — of Roger Casement, humanitarian and Irish patriot
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Epistolary lives
Susan Lever
16 May 2024
Forty years of correspondence illuminates the careers of two important Australian writers
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Distant crimes, nearby perpetrators
Hamish McDonald
10 May 2024
Under pressure from Canberra to fill the ships, how many “right-wing undesirables” did officials allow on boats to Australia?
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The propagandist
Jane Goodall
10 May 2024
How a shape-shifting journalist turned the Germans’ techniques back on them
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The case for banning billionaires
Peter Mares
29 April 2024
Should there be a limit on how rich you can be?
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Working-class hero
Brett Evans
24 April 2024
Gary Stevenson’s epiphany came once he’d joined the top ranks of London’s foreign-exchange traders
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