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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”
Books & arts
A danger to democracy and liberty?
David Clune
10 November 2016
Books
| A new account of the 1916 and 1917 conscription debates looks beyond the factional struggles that tore Labor apart
Books & arts
Enemies old and new
Brian Toohey
2 November 2016
Books
| The latest volume of the official ASIO history reveals tensions with successive governments, but still no firm evidence that Soviet agents operated within its ranks
Books & arts
Passion play at Kardinia Park
Brett Evans
26 October 2016
Books
| James Button’s tale of a football club made good has all the elements of classical drama
National affairs
The price of secrecy
Brian Toohey
4 October 2016
A new account of Britain’s nuclear tests in Australia reveals a long history of damaging suppression
Essays & reportage
The battle for The Rocks
Jim Colman
12 September 2016
Unions, residents and community groups took on a powerful government agency to thwart plans for the wholesale redevelopment of Australia’s oldest suburb, writes
Jim Colman
Books & arts
Anthony Albanese and the art of political arithmetic
Jane Goodall
9 September 2016
Books
| The story of a shrewd strategist tells us important things about the state of Australian politics
Books & arts
Wrong place, wrong time
Paul Rodan
9 September 2016
Books
| Energy and ambition fuelled the rise and fall of a remarkable but flawed Labor leader, writes
Paul Rodan
Books & arts
A poet in the provinces
Susan Lever
18 August 2016
Books
| Gwen Harwood’s letters reveal an exuberant wit and sense of the ridiculous, writes
Susan Lever
Books & arts
The matriarch
Sara Dowse
16 August 2016
Books
| Was Kate Leigh a bad woman, the worst in Sydney?
Essays & reportage
Golden disobedience: the history of Eric Rolls
Tom Griffiths
9 August 2016
For Eric Rolls, historical writing needed to serve the future, writes
Tom Griffiths
Books & arts
The book of the film of the book
Brian McFarlane
3 August 2016
Brian McFarlane
reviews Whit Stillman’s
Love and Friendship
Essays & reportage
Distance and destiny
Graeme Davison
28 July 2016
Published fifty years ago,
The Tyranny of Distance
changed the way we see Australia, writes
Graeme Davison
Books & arts
The fax of life for film-makers
Brian McFarlane
22 July 2016
Books
| This collaborative account shows how films, almost miraculously, get to the screen, writes
Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
Contradictory counsel
Tony Blackshield
1 July 2016
Books
| A new biography of Sydney lawyer and sometime politician Tom Hughes details a remarkable career, writes
Tony Blackshield
From the archive
The myth of Keith Murdoch’s Gallipoli letter
Mark Baker
27 June 2016
How the legendary dispatch failed its first test
Books & arts
Judge by the hands, not by the eyes
Brett Evans
24 June 2016
Books
| Maurizio Viroli wants us to take a fresh look at the political philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli, writes
Brett Evans
Books & arts
Thrillingly alive while history was made
Evan Williams
24 June 2016
Books
| Thornton McCamish’s unconventional biography of writer Alan Moorehead succeeds beautifully, writes
Evan Williams
Books & arts
Cartoonists go back to class
Robert Phiddian
7 June 2016
Books
| A new collection of cartoons reveals a struggle to find the comic essence of Malcolm Turnbull, writes
Robert Phiddian
Books & arts
Is this such a man?
Peter Crowley
2 June 2016
Books
| Angus McMillan’s name has become attached to at least one massacre in Victoria’s Gippsland region, writes
Peter Crowley
. But does the…
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