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International
Mobile phone nation
Assa Doron & Robin Jeffrey
14 February 2013
With subscriber numbers heading for a billion, the disruptive impact of mobile phones in India could be enormous. In this extract from their new book,
Robin Jeffrey
and…
Books & Arts
In the field
Martha Macintyre
16 May 2021
How five pioneering anthropologists pushed at the boundaries of what it meant to be a woman
Essays & Reportage
The making of a prime minister
Frank Bongiorno
15 August 2023
How did Australia’s thirty-first PM make it to the Lodge?
From the archive
The lost portrait
Sylvia Martin
23 April 2018
A single image can open up an unexplored part of a subject’s life, writes the biographer of writer and activist Aileen Palmer
Correspondents
Justin Trudeau’s knockout performance
Jonathan Malloy
22 October 2015
Defying electoral logic, Canada’s Liberals came back from the near-dead, writes
Jonathan Malloy
in Ottawa
Books & Arts
A little knowledge
Andrew Ford
7 November 2016
England’s most famous composer is less English than he might seem
From the archive
How Harold Holt was lost
Tom Griffiths
17 December 2017
A chance encounter anticipated the shocking disappearance of a prime minister fifty years ago
Correspondents
Trumpland in Brexitannia: hands across the ocean?
David Hayes
10 November 2016
America’s rage revolution echoes Britain’s referendum uprising. But does it bring the old allies closer?
National Affairs
Climate change and the intellectual decline of the right
John Quiggin
18 August 2014
No arguments seem to sway right-wing politicians and commentators in the United States and Australia, says
John Quiggin
. Will we have to wait for demography to do its work?
Essays & Reportage
The life of the mind
Brett Evans
1 August 2011
“Don’t tell me you’re going to spend your life looking for the soul?”
Brett Evans
meets the philosopher David Chalmers
International
In the city of the singing trams
R.J.B. Bosworth
12 February 2013
A winter-time research trip to Rome gives
R.J.B. Bosworth
the chance to gauge the shifting pattern of party support as Italy’s national election campaign enters its…
Essays & Reportage
Portrait of the politician as a young man
Mike Steketee & Milton Cockburn
22 April 2014
In this extract from
Mike Steketee
and
Milton Cockburn
’s biography, first published in 1986, Neville Wran – who died earlier this week –…
Books & Arts
The biggest stage
Brett Evans
12 November 2015
Books
|
Brett Evans
follows Peter Garrett from West Pymble to Canberra, via French’s in Oxford Street
Essays & Reportage
Inside “The House”
Sylvia Martin
29 October 2018
Forty-five years ago,
Sylvia Martin
was among the actors who performed in the earliest productions at the Sydney Opera House
Books & Arts
Portraying the age
Geoff Wilkes
4 October 2022
Joseph Roth’s restless journeying produced an idiosyncratic depiction of central Europe in the twenties and thirties
Essays & Reportage
It was time: Mick Young’s triumph
Stephen Mills
29 November 2012
Not only was the 1972 election a watershed for Labor, it also created the modern political campaign
Essays & Reportage
Shaping the Herald: Sir Keith Murdoch seen through his confidential memoranda
Michael Cannon
29 June 2013
As managing editor of the Melbourne
Herald
, Keith Murdoch battled employers, sensation-mongering and overly large headlines in a remarkable series of notes to his senior…
From the archive
François Péron and the Tasmanians: an unrequited romance
Shino Konishi
29 January 2009
The anthropologist’s visit to Tasmania in 1802 is a revealing story of love gone wrong
Books & Arts
Knocked sideways by luck
Susan Lever
31 July 2017
Three writers explore the mixed inheritances that helped fuel their work
Books & Arts
Eurovision’s war on gravity
Jane Goodall
25 May 2015
Television
| Even without Edna Everage, the sixtieth Eurovision entered hyperspace once and for all, writes
Jane Goodall
Essays & Reportage
On the Age’s river of gold
Iola Mathews
21 June 2019
Extract
| A former journalist recalls life on the newspaper during the era of legendary editor Graham Perkin
Books & Arts
Versions of ourselves
Richard Johnstone
2 June 2011
Richard Johnstone
considers the art of screen adaptation – with and without a literary source
Books & Arts
Framing Australia
Richard Johnstone
13 April 2015
Photography
| A new exhibition makes illuminating connections across Australian photographic history, writes
Richard Johnstone
From the archive
Who does she think she is?
Brenda Niall
30 July 2021
A survey of women’s portraiture suggests there are as many answers as artists
Books & Arts
Pitching the American dream
Ellie Rennie
13 January 2009
Ellie Rennie
reviews the first season of
Mad Men
, where work really matters
Correspondents
The year the gloves came off
Duncan Hewitt
25 September 2018
Updated
| Despite opting for a less confrontational chief executive, Beijing has tightened its grip in Hong Kong
Summer season
From comedy to drama in a blink
Julie Rigg
18 February 2020
Cinema
| Our reviewer recalls her first meeting with the director of
Parasite
From the archive
The heft of the visual
Sara Dowse
13 August 2021
Does the West see what it wants to see in Afghanistan?
Correspondents
Tales of the unexpected
Clar Ni Chonghaile
2 May 2013
The world’s largest refugee settlement is now telling its own stories, writes
Clar Ni Chonghaile
From the archive
Who’s counting?
Bronwyn Carlson
8 March 2016
Identifying and acknowledging an Aboriginal lineage can be a complex and challenging process
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