From the archive
11 November 2025
Audacious African-American singer, dancer and actor Josephine Baker earned her place among France’s wartime greats
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21 March 2025
Why breakthroughs emerge from fooling around
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8 March 2024
On the Middle East, renewable energy, American power and much else, Jimmy Carter was ahead of his time
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1 December 2023
Where did all that water go?
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1 December 2023
How does the former secretary of state feel about being called a war criminal?
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27 November 2023
Labor’s changes to the controversial portfolio don’t go anywhere near far enough
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17 November 2023
An extract from Unmaking Angas Downs, which has won this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History
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14 November 2023
How David Cameron — who returned to the British cabinet this week — fed the beast that eventually destroyed his prime ministership
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5 September 2023
How the comic genius of John Clarke found its anchor
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15 August 2023
How did Australia’s thirty-first PM make it to the Lodge?
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16 May 2023
What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?
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1 February 2023
Why did this shy Sydneysider dot his city with a one-word poem?
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4 November 2022
In this extract from Wandering with Intent, winner of this year’s Age Non-fiction Book of the Year award, Kim Mahood heads northwest on the Tanami Road
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18 October 2022
With rigorous science and inspired humanism, archaeologist Mike Smith — who died this week — imagined the other side of the frontier
From the archive
30 September 2022
A biography of two very different editors illuminates literary life in postwar Australia
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28 September 2022
What explains the Belgian novelist’s enduring popularity?
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4 September 2022
Harold Holt’s attraction to danger gives his death an air of inevitability
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30 November 2021
The pleasures of eavesdropping on the Beatles with Peter Jackson
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30 November 2021
During more than thirty years of public commentary the Aboriginal leader has charted his own course
From the archive
11 November 2021
A graveyard hints at the many people already mourning when the first world war broke out
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5 November 2021
The prime minister set his own test for success — authenticity — and then went about passing it
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22 October 2021
In search of his forebears, a writer finds an era of “constructive cosmopolitan complexity”
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14 October 2021
Why is Australia among the few Western countries that don’t tax inheritances?
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8 October 2021
Buurtzorg provides more humane care for elderly people at a lower cost. So what’s stopping it from being adopted in Australia?
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4 October 2021
Simone de Beauvoir’s previously unpublished novel The Inseparables is far more than an abandoned curiosity
From the archive
27 September 2021
How two sons of empire became leading public intellectuals
From the archive
21 September 2021
Are we creating a society Jane Austen might recognise?
From the archive
17 September 2021
Are mistaken beliefs about the history of mental health treatments stopping us from creating a humane system?
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17 September 2021
In a compelling first draft of history, historian Adam Tooze captures an unstable, interconnected world
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2 September 2021
Renewed allegations of corruption in 1980s New South Wales have reawakened strong feelings