Books & arts
22 April 2020
Books | Award-winning biographer Brenda Niall throws fresh light on four intriguing women writers
Books & arts
15 April 2020
Books | London-born Graham Berry took on the forces of reaction in colonial Victoria
Essays & reportage
13 April 2020
How a daughter’s death caused by Spanish flu sent a family halfway across the globe
Books & arts
9 April 2020
Books | A shoebox in Miami opens up a story of migration and memory
Books & arts
1 April 2020
“Difficult” women have often played key roles in feminist history
Books & arts
27 March 2020
“I would like to be read by the people I went to school with,” said the historian Ken Inglis. “And by my parents. And by my children.”
Books & arts
12 March 2020
Books | Biographer Sylvia Martin turns her lens onto herself
Essays & reportage
5 March 2020
Extract | Historian Ken Inglis finds his vocation, reveals a talent for journalism, and embarks for Oxford
Essays & reportage
17 February 2020
Extract | For many Aboriginal people, Finniss Springs has been a homeland and a refuge
Essays & reportage
10 February 2020
The discovery of a remarkable piece of writing by Aileen Palmer adds poignancy to her later life
Books & arts
12 December 2019
Books | Jean Blackburn played a central role in a wave of educational reform
Essays & reportage
10 December 2019
Inspired by Nellie Melba, Judith Anderson carved out a career on stage and screen
Essays & reportage
3 December 2019
George Seddon helped his readers see Australia from the inside
Books & arts
22 November 2019
Books | As Disney+ sets out to teach Netflix and others about streaming video, the chief executive of Walt Disney’s company shares lessons learned on the way to the top
Summer season
6 November 2019
Literary history hasn’t always been kind to poet, novelist and journalist Zora Cross
Books & arts
6 November 2019
Books | “In harming myself, I was harming others,” writes Bri Lee in her follow-up to Eggshell Skull
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
Books & arts
8 October 2019
Books | Was W.H. Auden right to doubt the poem but wrong to suppress its affirming flame?
National affairs
24 August 2019
The former deputy prime minister’s publisher recalls an unexpected friendship
Books & arts
19 August 2019
Books | Is there more to the story of the great reforming premier, Don Dunstan?
Books & arts
13 August 2019
Books | Two women’s experience of deafness, a century apart
Essays & reportage
25 July 2019
Published two years before The Female Eunuch, Margaret Fulton’s first cookbook had its own impact
Books & arts
25 June 2019
Books | Maurice and Doris Blackburn resisted the pull of the mainstream
Essays & reportage
21 June 2019
Extract | A former journalist recalls life on the newspaper during the era of legendary editor Graham Perkin
Essays & reportage
10 May 2019
A new statue of Aboriginal rights leader William Ferguson links politics past and present
Essays & reportage
25 April 2019
A chance reference leads to a bloody battlefield and a different Australia
Books & arts
19 April 2019
Books | Julienne van Loon asks all the right questions in this exploration of life in a precarious world
From the archive
3 April 2019
Having grown up sheltered from the winds of modernism, painter Nora Heysen took a fresh turn in 1930s London
Recovered Lives
8 March 2019
Introducing our collection of articles on Australian history’s missing women, in collaboration with the Australian Dictionary of Biography