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Privilege’s alchemy
Dean Ashenden
14 June 2024
Money might bestow enormous power, but is the triumph of the wealthy complete?
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Cross-class coupling
Sara Dowse
13 June 2024
What can cross-class relationships tell us about Australia’s semi-visible inequalities?
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The power of shame
Nick Haslam
5 June 2024
What can the psychology of this powerful emotion reveal about political life?
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Bingil Bay Bastard
Morag Fraser
4 June 2024
From a “pinch of guilt” emerges a fine-grained biography of a bohemian figure during a vital period of environmental activism
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Living with loss
Kate Fullagar
28 May 2024
What brought the Age of Enlightenment to an end?
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He’s not the Messiah
Robert Phiddian
23 May 2024
A former prime minister ponders providence
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Citizen capitalists
Susan Sheridan
21 May 2024
A family history doubles as a chronicle of a certain kind of South Australian
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Oh, Sir Roger!
Jim Davidson
20 May 2024
The extraordinary life — and death — of Roger Casement, humanitarian and Irish patriot
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Epistolary lives
Susan Lever
16 May 2024
Forty years of correspondence illuminates the careers of two important Australian writers
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Distant crimes, nearby perpetrators
Hamish McDonald
10 May 2024
Under pressure from Canberra to fill the ships, how many “right-wing undesirables” did officials allow on boats to Australia?
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The propagandist
Jane Goodall
10 May 2024
How a shape-shifting journalist turned the Germans’ techniques back on them
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The case for banning billionaires
Peter Mares
29 April 2024
Should there be a limit on how rich you can be?
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Working-class hero
Brett Evans
24 April 2024
Gary Stevenson’s epiphany came once he’d joined the top ranks of London’s foreign-exchange traders
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The plumbing is political
Jock Given
24 April 2024
Connecting everything to everything else didn’t dissolve power, it embedded it
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The wall
Sara Dowse
24 April 2024
A Palestinian father’s story of life and death in the Occupied Territories
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The legendary King O’Malley
Ken Haley
10 April 2024
“Father of the Commonwealth Bank,” promoter of the national capital, North American émigré — King O’Malley created his own history
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Long war
Graeme Dobell
9 April 2024
How Vladimir Putin’s empire dream became Ukraine’s war and an international nightmare
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The end of the future
Frank Yuan
8 April 2024
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek engages with “pre-apocalyptic” times
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“I weep more at a wedding than a funeral”
Kate Fullagar
5 April 2024
The earliest bluestockings pioneered a new way of thinking about women like themselves. But what about the wider world?
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Sealing the deal
Paul Rodan
4 April 2024
The National Party senator who campaigned against the far-right League of Rights exposes his strengths and weaknesses
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Music of remembrance
Andrew Ford
2 April 2024
In the wake of a war and the Holocaust, how should music commemorate?
International
Not quite a marriage made in heaven
Rodney Tiffen
2 April 2024
Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump have had their ups and downs, but it’s mainly been down since 2020
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The father of “soft power”
Graeme Dobell
28 March 2024
An eighty-year retrospective from the American academic who changed the way nations attract and argue
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A fragment of a life
Susan Lever
28 March 2024
Charmian Clift’s most ambitious but unfinished work illuminates her childhood in coastal New South Wales
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John Glover, born-again artist in Tasmania
Jim Davidson
27 March 2024
Ron Radford shows how an elderly Englishman became the first notable white Australian landscape painter
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Grand days
Patrick Mullins
27 March 2024
James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s war never ended
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Emergency thinking
Klaus Neumann
25 March 2024
Two new biographies of Hannah Arendt couldn’t be more different. Our reviewer was captivated by one of them
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Born to laugh
Robert Phiddian
22 March 2024
Is British comedy pervaded by the worldview of the Oxbridge graduate?
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Soeharto’s Australian whisperer
Hamish McDonald
21 March 2024
How a former Jehovah’s Witness activist became a secret intermediary between the Indonesian leader and the West
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Good cop, bad cop
Carol Johnson
20 March 2024
Successfully or not, Peter Dutton stands in a long line of paternalistic leaders
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