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Books & Arts
Perfect isolation
Richard Johnstone
3 April 2017
Photography
| Bill Henson’s new exhibition deftly connects life and art
Essays & Reportage
An un-Australian childhood
Amirah Inglis
5 May 2015
This extract from her award-winning memoir opens as
Amirah Inglis
and her mother arrive in Melbourne from Europe in 1929
Essays & Reportage
A consensus for care
Frances Flanagan
15 May 2017
There are many reasons why work won’t simply disappear, but we need to talk about how it is distributed
Books & Arts
The hollow Crown
Jane Goodall
28 November 2020
Television
| The fourth season of the Netflix blockbuster is brilliantly structured but ethically worrying
Essays & Reportage
Victims and suspects: the catch-22 of being a Muslim woman in Australia
Shakira Hussein
10 March 2016
Muslim women are urged to break free of patriarchical domestic lives yet viewed with suspicion if they display signs of their religion in…
Books & Arts
Historian of the present
Peter Browne
5 December 2017
Ken Inglis was not only a widely admired historian but also a gifted reporter and a sharp-eyed pioneer of press criticism
Books & Arts
The filmmaker’s gaze
Julie Rigg
28 June 2019
Cinema
| French director Agnès Varda viewed the world with a mixture of curiosity and compassion
International
How Evo blew it
Antonio Castillo
1 March 2016
Just a month after celebrating ten years in power, Evo Morales’s quest for a fourth term in office ended in defeat. It was bad news for a record-breaking leader but good news…
Books & Arts
What is power?
Sara Dowse
18 December 2017
Books
| Mary Beard writes with characteristic verve about the long history of men silencing women
Books & Arts
Interruptions
Sara Dowse
9 July 2018
Books
| Two writers grapple with the demands of motherhood, real and imagined
Books & Arts
Sensational fiction in Marvellous Melbourne
Kylie Mirmohamadi & Susan K. Martin
5 October 2011
Susan K. Martin
and
Kylie Mirmohamadi
look at a sub-genre of popular writing that spanned the globe from London to Melbourne
Books & Arts
Drama is elsewhere
Jane Goodall
27 October 2015
Television
|
Jane Goodall
watches
The
Beautiful Lie
,
Sherlock
,
Fargo
and
Homeland
Essays & Reportage
Life in the goldfish bowl
Gavin J.D. Smith
2 December 2015
Why have watershed data retention laws failed to excite more opposition? Three factors might help explain our acquiescence, writes
Gavin J.D. Smith
Books & Arts
The comedy wars
Jane Goodall
7 April 2015
Television
| There’s plenty to enjoy about Stephen Oliver’s survey of TV humour, writes
Jane Goodall
. But how uniquely Australian is the phenomenon…
Correspondents
Tony Benn, the great conjuror
David Hayes
8 April 2014
The Labour politician turned radical in mid-career and ended up a revered figure. His remarkable story can also reveal Britain to itself, says
David Hayes
National Affairs
Labor’s mixed migration message
Peter Mares
6 May 2020
Kristina Keneally has confused an important debate
International
Not the new cold war
Graeme Dobell
27 November 2018
“Hot peace” is a much better label for this period of competing powers within a single system
Books & Arts
Two for the road — and two on the road
Brian McFarlane
11 August 2017
Cinema
| Two undemanding but shrewdly written films have hidden depths
Books & Arts
Far horizons
Jane Goodall
24 December 2018
Television
| The best three series of 2018
From the archive
Once were a weird mob
Brett Evans
11 November 2016
How one of Britain’s greatest directors transferred John O’Grady’s sharply observed comic novel to the screen
Correspondents
Kyiv, one year on
Alexandra Biggs
22 February 2023
A new normal has taken root in a city at war
Essays & Reportage
A death in the rain
Peter Mares
24 September 2010
FROM THE ARCHIVE | This week Fijian fruit-picker Josefa Rauluni died in the Villawood detention centre.
Peter Mares
describes a similar case nearly ten years ago, and how…
Essays & Reportage
Learning the local language
Lea McInerney
8 February 2017
Beginning to understand an Indigenous language brought Lea McInerney a little closer to a deeper story
Books & Arts
The many selves of Gillian Mears
Drusilla Modjeska
25 September 2021
A new biography captures the enigmatic Australian writer
International
How Donald Trump is playing the man’s card
Lesley Russell
30 May 2016
Hillary Clinton was always going to face different challenges and different treatment, writes
Lesley Russell
Essays & Reportage
A love supreme
David Hayes
20 January 2019
Thirty years on, the riveting story of consuming devotion — and its buried chronicle — still haunts this reader
Books & Arts
“I weep more at a wedding than a funeral”
Kate Fullagar
5 April 2024
The earliest bluestockings pioneered a new way of thinking about women like themselves. But what about the wider world?
Essays & Reportage
Top Endings
Kerry Ryan
17 September 2015
Twenty years after he left,
Kerry Ryan
returned to Darwin. Some things had changed, some things had stayed the same
Essays & Reportage
In search of Cinquevalli
David Hayes
14 July 2018
On the centenary of his death, it’s time for a supreme world-crossing entertainer to take his place in history
Books & Arts
The real Julia
Sara Dowse
15 October 2014
Books
| What happened to the woman who beguiled on election night 2007?
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