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Books & arts Behind the law’s “sheen of neutrality” Kate Rossmanith 26 September 2022 In Black Lives, White Law, Russell Marks points towards a more hopeful future Books & arts Central bankers unbound John Edwards 21 September 2022 The global financial crisis dramatically changed the role of central banks — and then the pandemic came along Books & arts Threshold moments Nick Haslam 16 September 2022 Is it any surprise that we cling to old rituals and invent new ones? Books & arts Flame wars Ryan Cropp 12 September 2022 Have Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens mistaken a symptom for the cause?

Books & arts Thinking Black Tim Rowse 11 January 2022 A new biography shows how William Cooper set out to civilise white Australia Books & arts Becoming refugees Klaus Neumann 18 December 2021 The perceived threat posed by Europe’s postwar “Displaced Persons” helped shape today’s international refugee regime Essays & reportage The Singapore grip Tim Colebatch 17 December 2021 Singapore is good at solving economic problems, but its political stagnation is stopping it from dealing with urgent social challenges Books & arts Days of hope Sara Dowse 17 December 2021 Feminist thinker and activist Sheila Rowbotham remembers the 1970s

From the archive Noel Pearson, radical centrist Tim Rowse 30 November 2021 During more than thirty years of public commentary the Aboriginal leader has charted his own course Books & arts Tall-poppy lopping Patrick Mullins 30 November 2021 A historian from across the Tasman applies a forensic eye to the history wars battle between Manning Clark and Peter Ryan Books & arts In the footsteps of the garibaldini James Panichi 19 November 2021 Explaining Italy to the rest of us is Tim Parks’s specialty. Now he retraces a daring campaign conceived by the country’s best-known founder Books & arts Garner territory Zora Simic 19 November 2021 Helen Garner is at her best in this third volume of her diaries