National affairs
23 July 2025
More evidence emerges that Peter Dutton’s electorally toxic impulses were reinforced by misleading polling
National affairs
22 July 2025
Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are…
National affairs
18 July 2025
A former Treasury secretary lays down the environmental law
National affairs
11 July 2025
The NT coroner spells out the long series of events that led to Kumanjayi Walker’s death
National affairs
30 June 2025
New shadow minister Kerrynne Liddle believes the rights of the vulnerable should take precedence over Indigenous rights
Essays & reportage
7 May 2025
Sparked by dubious arrests based on mistaken information, Western Australia’s Laverton royal commission reverberates fifty years later
Essays & reportage
20 March 2025
Despite her weakness for hyperbole, the high-profile senator has proposed a simple way of bringing greater Indigenous scrutiny to parliament
Books & arts
28 January 2025
Who is entitled to be a Native American?
Books & arts
27 January 2025
Language flows in unexpected ways
Books & arts
22 November 2024
Could the Yirrkala Petitions best be understood as an attempt at communication between nations?
Books & arts
1 November 2024
A Lutheran pastor introduced to remote communities a different way of thinking about schooling for Aboriginal children
Books & arts
16 September 2024
Two journeys up the east coast of Australia
Essays & reportage
1 August 2024
Behind William Crowther and other controversial colonial-era figures was the collector par excellence
Essays & reportage
4 July 2024
An announcement at Huckitta Station provides a link between native title and police powers
Books & arts
28 June 2024
Three books, two articles and a report offer a range of explanations
Books & arts
25 June 2024
A chance find opened up a hidden world to historian Cassandra Pybus
Books & arts
6 December 2023
David Marr’s intergenerational account of colonisation challenges us to think differently about truth-telling
National affairs
6 November 2023
Railing against the elites, the Australian’s editor-at-large has missed real messages in the Voice vote
Books & arts
4 November 2023
An anthropologist sees a radically distinctive humanity among Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples
National affairs
16 October 2023
What does the referendum result mean for First Nations policymaking?
National affairs
16 October 2023
Despite the Yes campaign’s best efforts, Saturday’s vote followed the referendum playbook
Essays & reportage
12 October 2023
“You don’t even look Nyoongar,” they told the author as a schoolgirl. “Are you sure you’re Aboriginal?”
Essays & reportage
10 October 2023
Regardless of the outcome of the Voice referendum, Australia’s past will continue to unsettle the present
Essays & reportage
29 September 2023
A chance find in a Melbourne collectibles shop transports the author back to 1988’s “celebration of a nation”
International
28 September 2023
A group of Australian MPs in Taiwan this week would have been struck by parallels between the two countries’ First Nations people
Books & arts
27 September 2023
How pianist Paul Grabowsky benefited from the generosity of the Wilfred brothers and other Indigenous musicians
Books & arts
10 August 2023
The Nunatsiavut assembly sits at the intersection of Inuit and European political traditions
Books & arts
4 July 2023
Historian Ruth Ross, the Waitangi Treaty and historical mythmaking are the subjects of a provocative account of New Zealand’s founding document that throws light on Australian…
Books & arts
22 June 2023
Stan Grant’s The Queen is Dead reviewed
National affairs
5 April 2023
A capacity to enable fruitful cross-cultural interaction was among the strengths of Yolngu leader Yunupingu, who died last weekend