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First Nations
Essays & reportage
Monumental silence
Dean Ashenden
10 October 2024
As the first anniversary of the Voice vote approaches, should we be thinking differently about truth-telling?
National affairs
Gap years
Michael Dillon
8 March 2024
Obfuscation and delay are blocking efforts to tackle Indigenous disadvantage
Books & arts
Voices off
Tim Rowse
15 February 2024
What does the experience of the Ngaanyatjarra community tells us about the bipartisan promise of regional Voices?
From the archive
Revisiting Bloodwood Bore
Shannyn Palmer
17 November 2023
An extract from
Unmaking Angas Downs
, which has won this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History
Books & arts
Freeing Bennelong and Phillip
Alan Atkinson
20 October 2023
Nothing is preordained in Kate Fullagar’s dual biography
Essays & reportage
The voice of Alexis Wright
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
11 October 2023
Her novels paradoxically activate readers’ critical faculties while compelling us to trust the narrative voice
Essays & reportage
A steady path to sovereignty?
Tim Rowse
6 October 2023
The Voice debate has opened up the complexity of First Nations political thought
Essays & reportage
Self-determination works. The next step is the Voice
Laura Rademaker and Ian Anderson
29 September 2023
It’s time for the Constitution to recognise the benefits of empowering Indigenous communities
Essays & reportage
Odyssey down under
Tom Griffiths
8 September 2023
A new kind of history is called for in the year of the Voice referendum. Here’s what it might look like.
National affairs
No diversion unticked
Peter Brent
31 August 2023
A more responsible party leader wouldn’t have joined in a ridiculous debate about ticks and crosses
Essays & reportage
The “end” of Labor’s honeymoon and the “collapse” of women’s support for the Voice
Murray Goot
25 July 2023
How Newspoll reports public opinion and how the
Australian
reports Newspoll
National affairs
Yes and No: the official (but curiously incomplete) cases
Tim Rowse
19 July 2023
Neither of the Voice to Parliament pamphlets rises to the occasion
Essays & reportage
“Undecided” on the Voice
Murray Goot
20 June 2023
Depending on the choices pollsters offer, the undecideds range all the way from none to two-thirds of respondents
National affairs
Losing ground?
Murray Goot
9 June 2023
Support for the Voice may not have dropped as much as the latest Newspoll suggests
Essays & reportage
The evolution of a myth
Bain Attwood
29 May 2023
How William Cooper became “the man who stood up to Hitler”
National affairs
The referendum’s lines in the sand
Tim Rowse
19 May 2023
If the parliamentary committee is any guide, representation and risk have become the sharpest dividing lines in the Voice debate
Essays & reportage
From Indigenous recognition to the Voice, and back again
Murray Goot
15 May 2023
There are signs of a shift in strategy by the Yes forces, but are the polls keeping up?
National affairs
Peter Dutton’s no-payoff gamble
Peter Brent
18 April 2023
Neither result in the Voice referendum will benefit the opposition leader
National affairs
Albo room
Tim Rowse
27 March 2023
The debate over the revised wording of the Voice amendment misses a key point: this is a referendum like no other
Books & arts
Where No meets Yes
Tim Rowse
14 February 2023
Opponents of a constitutionally enshrined Voice warn of many of the features that most attract its proponents
National affairs
Peter Dutton’s questions
Tim Rowse
23 January 2023
Have critics overlooked what the opposition leader
didn’t
ask?
National affairs
Price and Pearson, uneasy allies?
Tim Rowse
23 December 2022
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Noel Pearson’s clash over the Voice masks a more complicated picture
Books & arts
Ambivalent in Arnhem Land
Gillian Cowlishaw
13 December 2022
Have a determined anthropologist and a gifted writer come to terms with how differently Yolngu do things?
Books & arts
The matriarchs
Emma Lee
30 November 2022
How three extraordinary Tasmanian Aboriginal women fought for their people
From the archive
Flowers for Evelyn
Kim Mahood
4 November 2022
In this extract from
Wandering with Intent
, winner of this year’s
Age
Non-fiction Book of the Year award,
Kim Mahood
heads northwest on the Tanami Road
National affairs
The Voice: not enough “meat on the bone”?
Tim Rowse
27 September 2022
Are fears of a repeat of the 1999 republic referendum influencing the campaign for an Indigenous Voice?
From the archive
Noel Pearson, radical centrist
Tim Rowse
30 November 2021
During more than thirty years of public commentary the Aboriginal leader has charted his own course
Books & arts
A miner meets its match
Andrew Dodd
12 October 2021
How Fortescue Metals Group was bested by a tenacious campaign in the Pilbara
Essays & reportage
Why, and why not?
Andrew Chalk
17 September 2021
Andrew Chalk pays tribute to lawyer, writer and humanitarian Hal Wootten
Essays & reportage
“If we care for Country, it will care for us”
Sarah Barns
17 August 2021
What happens when the idea of Country is integrated into how Australian cities are planned?
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