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Selling “new Australians” to old Australians
Maruta Rodan
19 June 2017
Books
| Careful marketing helped ease the arrival of 170,000 migrants from postwar Europe
Essays & reportage
Surfing with Singer
Peter Mares
31 May 2017
Philosopher Peter Singer puts a disturbingly simple case for altruism. Too simple, perhaps?
Books & arts
Dragged behind a chariot, watched by the crowd
Jane Goodall
30 May 2017
Books
| In the titanic battle over Greece’s economic sovereignty, the local audience was the big casualty
Books & arts
Reaping what was sown
Susan Lever
4 May 2017
An unconventional history shows us personal and emotional engagements with the history of the WA wheatbelt
Essays & reportage
In the name of the people
Rodney Tiffen
27 April 2017
Populists across the globe are united by their claim to speak on behalf of “the people.” It’s rarely enough for lasting electoral success
Books & arts
Ambiguities in search of nuance
Jane Goodall
20 April 2017
Television
| A strong cast and narrative tension don’t necessarily add up to successful TV drama
Books & arts
Making it through the waves
Jock Given
18 April 2017
Books
| Joni Mitchell’s decades aren’t done yet
Books & arts
How unfair was the Versailles peace treaty?
Michael Mckernan
18 April 2017
Books
| A new history turns the conventional view on its head
Essays & reportage
Australia’s Armenian story
Vicken Babkenian and Judith Crispin
6 April 2017
Extract
| The wartime events of 24 April 1915 initiated more than a century of interaction reaching across the globe
Essays & reportage
They call me Immigration
Omar Mohammed Jack
5 April 2017
From the new book,
They Cannot Take the Sky
, comes the story of Omar Mohammed Jack, who left Sudan when he was seventeen and has spent more than three years in detention
Books & arts
Parallel lives
Graeme Dobell
29 March 2017
Books
| A former journalist and diplomat offers a double-jointed view of Australia’s international role
Books & arts
Hundred-year lives
Brett Evans
23 March 2017
Books
| Middle age is expanding, which is mostly good news
Books & arts
The other Lenin
Graeme Gill
21 March 2017
Books
| Coinciding with the centenary of the Russian revolution, a compelling biography of the communist revolutionary plays down politics in favour of the personal
Books & arts
The adaptable Winifred Holtby
Brian McFarlane
20 March 2017
Out of the unpromising material of local government, Winifred Holtby created a fine novel that went on to be filmed three times
Books & arts
A perfect imperfection of her own
Susan Lever
7 March 2017
Books
| Anna Wickham made a distinctive contribution to the poetic experiments of the early twentieth century
Books & arts
No time like the present
Nick Haslam
27 February 2017
Books
| Our experience of time has a lot to do with how we balance past, present and future
Books & arts
Lost in translation – or should that be transcription?
Merlin Crossley
21 February 2017
Books
| This account of the latest research on genes and society poses some of the right questions
Books & arts
Workless, or working less?
John Quiggin
30 January 2017
Books
| Are we coming to the end of the relatively brief period in which salaried work dominated the economy?
Books & arts
The truth about torture
Tom Hyland
26 January 2017
From the archive
| Outside TV drama, “enhanced interrogation” fails the evidence test, writes
Tom Hyland
in this review first published in June 2016
Books & arts
Speaking freely
Jock Given
19 January 2017
Books
| How can we protect free speech in a global village that’s more like a vast multicultural city?
International
The man behind the “perpetual conflict machine”
Matthew Ricketson
28 December 2016
Old-fashioned reporting finally undid the unattractive creator of Fox News
Essays & reportage
The fabrication of Aboriginal voting
Brian Galligan
22 December 2016
Keith Windschuttle has assembled a highly selective case against recognition of Indigenous Australians in the Constitution
Books & arts
Moments between moments
Richard Johnstone
19 December 2016
With so much happening in front of the camera, there isn’t a lot of time for mobile photographers to look back
National affairs
The plight of Australia
William Coleman
19 December 2016
Is Australia caught in a Panglossian clench? The editor of
Only in Australia
responds to
Inside Story
’s review
Books & arts
Mediums and messages
Jane Goodall
14 December 2016
Books
| Viewing habits have changed, but TV is still at the forefront of cultural change
Essays & reportage
The plight of the Right
John Edwards
5 December 2016
Reality fails to align with theory in a new conservative analysis of what makes Australia exceptional
Books & arts
Looking forward by looking back
Matthew Gray
2 December 2016
Books
| Can the Ottoman Empire offer a guide to the future of the Middle East?
Books & arts
India’s leader: a two-year assessment
Bob Smith
1 December 2016
Books
| Can a personalised leadership style achieve results in this diverse and complex country?
Books & arts
The fossil fuel of politics
Klaus Neumann
23 November 2016
Books
| How should we respond to the growing crisis in electoral democracy?
Books & arts
The mystery of Judith Wright
Susan Lever
11 November 2016
Books
| A new biography explores the ambivalent legacy of being “born of the conquerors”
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