From the archive
4 June 2021
The pandemic has exposed longstanding problems in Australian universities. But it’s possible to map a way out
From the archive
18 May 2021
Memories and identities have proved surprisingly adaptable in a society forged by migration
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17 May 2021
Two leaks, two contrasting sequences of events — how Daniel Ellsberg and Chelsea Manning changed the course of history
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7 May 2021
The centenary of the birth of Sophie Scholl, the Munich student executed in 1943, prompts reflections on the legacy of Germany’s anti-Nazi resistance
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1 May 2021
In search of the artist behind the Art Gallery of South Australia’s widely praised exhibition
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16 April 2021
How did two very different leaders — Tony Blair and John Howard — come to join George W. Bush’s “march of folly”?
From the archive
19 March 2021
Two new books illuminate France’s #MeToo moment with more than a Gallic shrug
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5 March 2021
More than forty years later, lawyers are using evidence of an ASIO cover-up to clear the names of the Croatian Six
From the archive
5 March 2021
Those eleven years of government certainly had an impact, but not the one the Liberal PM is usually credited with
From the archive
4 March 2021
David Kemp’s multi-volume history of Australian liberalism continues into the Menzies era
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1 March 2021
Books | How Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill reinvented themselves in the Australian outback
From the archive
26 February 2021
Television | Two Danish crime series probe everyday darkness
From the archive
24 February 2021
The afterlife of Thomas Jefferson’s Bible
From the archive
24 February 2021
The Cultural Revolution still has a hold over China’s leaders
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1 February 2021
Television | Bridgerton isn’t alone. Period drama is back with a vengeance
From the archive
19 November 2020
Music | A new set of early recordings reveals again a singer-songwriter in a class of her own
From the archive
11 November 2020
A flimsy piece of paper carried grave news for a family in wartime Balmain
From the archive
24 September 2020
Is television satire working anymore?
From the archive
21 July 2020
Elizabeth Harrower’s fiction vividly evokes mid-twentieth-century Australia
From the archive
24 April 2020
Bestselling historian Paul Ham stands by allegations that anti–Vietnam war activists confronted veterans at airports and in the streets. But where’s the evidence?
From the archive
24 April 2020
The Gallipoli campaign wasn’t the pointless disaster of Anzac mythology
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13 April 2020
If the High Court is right about the evidence on timing, what went wrong during the prosecution and hearings?
From the archive
24 January 2020
The decades-long expansion of public funding to private schools has done the opposite of what its proponents claim
From the archive
6 November 2019
Melbourne’s Olympic year sums up why the fifties weren’t as dull as you might think
From the archive
24 October 2019
Despite disappearing from public view for decades, Olive Cotton was still gripped by photography’s artistic potential
From the archive
18 October 2019
The popular Labor senator was fortunate in her biographer
From the archive
16 August 2019
The Russell Square twins, Fabberdum and Fabberdee, Fabber & Fabber — whatever the nickname, the story of the famed London publisher reveals a lot about how creative…
From the archive
4 July 2019
Why do we end up with so many inept leaders?
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3 April 2019
Having grown up sheltered from the winds of modernism, painter Nora Heysen took a fresh turn in 1930s London
From the archive
10 January 2019
Judy Bailey’s long and distinguished career has contributed to an explosion in Australian jazz talent