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National affairs
Remembering Tim Fischer
Nathan Hollier
24 August 2019
The former deputy prime minister’s publisher recalls an unexpected friendship
Books & arts
Chardonnay socialist
Ryan Cropp
19 August 2019
Books
| Is there more to the story of the great reforming premier, Don Dunstan?
Books & arts
Ghosted
Susan Lever
13 August 2019
Books
| Two women’s experience of deafness, a century apart
Essays & reportage
A Margaret Fulton recipe always works
Sian Supski
25 July 2019
Published two years before
The Female Eunuch
, Margaret Fulton’s first cookbook had its own impact
Books & arts
Rescued from the footnotes
Sylvia Martin
25 June 2019
Books
| Maurice and Doris Blackburn resisted the pull of the mainstream
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
Essays & reportage
The game changer
Robert Milliken
10 May 2019
A new statue of Aboriginal rights leader William Ferguson links politics past and present
Essays & reportage
“Hard ill-fortune”: a lost distant cousin and a place called Pozières
Tom Hyland
25 April 2019
A chance reference leads to a bloody battlefield and a different Australia
Books & arts
Where are you at?
Drusilla Modjeska
19 April 2019
Books
| Julienne van Loon asks all the right questions in this exploration of life in a precarious world
From the archive
A woman interrupted
Drusilla Modjeska
3 April 2019
Having grown up sheltered from the winds of modernism, painter Nora Heysen took a fresh turn in 1930s London
Recovered Lives
Why don’t we know their names?
Melanie Nolan
8 March 2019
Introducing our collection of articles on Australian history’s missing women, in collaboration with the
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Recovered Lives
Forthright and hardworking, this corsetmaker founded a retail empire
Barbara Dawson
8 March 2019
Ann Hordern (c. 1791–1871), founder of Anthony Hordern & Sons
Recovered Lives
The “incorrigible” convict with a sharp tongue
Nichola Garvey
8 March 2019
Catherine Henrys (c. 1806–55)
Recovered Lives
“High time” for the Huddersfield Four
Nichola Garvey
8 March 2019
Lydia Clay (1811–58), Elizabeth Quarmby (1822–93), Mary Ann Wentworth (1824–1911) and Ruth Richardson (1817–58), transportees
Recovered Lives
Farmer, businesswoman — and founder of Penfolds
Julie McIntyre
8 March 2019
Mary Penfold (1816–95)
Recovered Lives
Pioneering medic blazed the trail
Karen Fox
8 March 2019
Iza Coghlan (1868–1946), doctor
Recovered Lives
This widely travelled public servant knew the costs of migration
Peter Davies
8 March 2019
Lucy Hicks (1833–1909), administrator
Recovered Lives
How “the Captain’s Lady” created her own legend
Meg Foster
8 March 2019
Mary Ann Bugg (1834–1905), Indigenous bushranger
Recovered Lives
A brief life seen through “wild bright eyes”
Alison Alexander
8 March 2019
Mathinna (c. 1835—?), Port Sorell woman
Recovered Lives
A comet across the feminist landscape
Deborah Jordan
8 March 2019
Frances Georgina Watts Higgins (1860–1948), landscape architect and feminist
Recovered Lives
Pitch and prejudice
Madeleine Lindsell
8 March 2019
Helen Australia (Nellie) Gregory (1863–1950) and Louisa Caroline Gregory (1865–1903), cricketers
Recovered Lives
The dressmaker who became Bondi’s elusive beachcomber
Melanie Nolan
8 March 2019
Ellen Peterson/Helen Packer/Madame Pacquer/“Bondi Mary” (1870–1941)
Recovered Lives
“Just hear the birds from Bendigo”
Nicole McLennan
8 March 2019
Lili Sharp (1876–1964), singer
Recovered Lives
On the edge of history
Alexandra McKinnon
8 March 2019
Nell Malone (1881–1963), hospital orderly and governess
Recovered Lives
A slight bias towards eels and lizards
Emily Gallagher
8 March 2019
Ella McFadyen (1887–1976), writer and editor
Recovered Lives
Another brilliant career
Alexandra McKinnon
8 March 2019
Kathleen Ussher (1891–1983), illustrator, writer, public servant
Recovered Lives
An Australian in silent Hollywood
Anne Rees
8 March 2019
Sylvia Breamer (1897–1943)
Recovered Lives
From Melbourne to Bletchley Park, and back
Shannon Lovelady
8 March 2019
Roma Craze (1915–95), intelligence analyst
Recovered Lives
A Piltindjeri woman who lived her culture
Kathryn Wells
8 March 2019
Katipelvild Margaret (Pinkie) Mack (1858–1954), Yaraldi-speaking Piltindjeri clanswoman
Recovered Lives
Matriarch of Darwin’s Chinese community
Elizabeth Kwan
7 March 2019
Lim Lee See (Granny Lum Loy) (c. 1887–1980)
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