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From the archive The heft of the visual Sara Dowse 13 August 2021 Does the West see what it wants to see in Afghanistan? Essays & reportage Friends with benefits Alecia Simmonds 2 August 2021 When and why did friendship slide down our hierarchy of relationships? Books & arts The political is the personal Sara Dowse 5 February 2021 Books | A freewheeling memoir is less about the author than the people and forces that shaped him Essays & reportage 1770 and all that Hamish McDonald 28 April 2020 The anniversary festival has been abandoned, but the communities at Cook’s landing point continue to promote a more complex story

National affairs Copyright’s missing voices Patricia Aufderheide 19 April 2017 More information about the creative process will help unblock the law reform debate National affairs The wartime origins of the culture wars Norman Abjorensen 7 March 2017 The battle dividing the Liberal Party dates back to Labor’s electoral success during the second world war Books & arts At the borders of the public domain Andrew Ford 16 February 2017 Should we borrow, steal – or even beg for – other cultures’ music? Books & arts Whose utopia? Madeleine O’Dea 22 September 2016 Fascinated by cities, Chinese artist and documentary-maker Cao Fei constantly returns to urban landscapes