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First Nations
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
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?
Essays & Reportage
Revisiting Bloodwood Bore
Shannyn Palmer
9 September 2022
An idiosyncratic ethnography drew a researcher to the Angas Downs pastoral station
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?
From the archive
A town not quite like Alice
Hamish McDonald
13 August 2021
The past meets the future in the town that inspired Nevil Shute’s bestselling novel
Essays & Reportage
The Great Divide
Bill Gammage
20 July 2021
The debate about
Dark Emu
is trapped in a centuries-old European worldview, says the author of
The Biggest Estate on Earth
From the archive
Finding the Moree way
Robert Milliken
11 June 2021
Aboriginal people in the town famously visited by the Freedom Ride are taking an innovative approach to their community’s problems
Essays & Reportage
The 1967 referendum: inspiration or burden?
Tim Rowse
27 May 2021
The overwhelming Yes vote still grips our imagination
Books & Arts
Killing the cop in your head
Declan Fry
25 May 2021
Forty ways of looking at Veronica Gorrie’s
Black and Blue
National Affairs
Drawing history into the present
Harry Hobbs
16 March 2021
Victoria takes up the challenge of truth-telling
From the archive
Alliance of convenience
Brenda Niall
1 March 2021
Books
| How Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill reinvented themselves in the Australian outback
Books & Arts
The moral complexity of truth-telling
Tim Rowse
26 February 2021
Books
| Two historians respond to the Uluru Statement’s challenge
Essays & Reportage
Is the Voice already being muted?
Tim Rowse
1 February 2021
As we enter stage two of the co-design process, the government seems already to be shaping the result
Essays & Reportage
Orwell that ends well?
Nicholas Gruen
31 August 2020
Can the latest push to evaluate Indigenous programs really Close the Gap?
Essays & Reportage
All hands on deck
Michael Dillon
21 August 2020
Noel Pearson’s job guarantee plan meets its most powerful critic: the newspaper that published it
Essays & Reportage
The long road to healthcare justice
Tess Ryan and Melissa Sweet
23 July 2020
The struggle to eliminate racism from Australian healthcare has been given new momentum
Essays & Reportage
Black loves matter
Gillian Cowlishaw
14 July 2020
During the “great Australian silence” the corridors of power were full of talk about the dangers of interracial intimacy
Essays & Reportage
Virtually Captain Cook
Maria Nugent
28 April 2020
Amid thwarted anniversary plans, a major National Museum of Australia exhibition goes online
Books & Arts
Carrying the flame
Tyson Yunkaporta
17 April 2020
Books
| Clear, direct and sometimes cheeky,
Fire Country
is about more than fire
Essays & Reportage
Let’s not waste this crisis
Melissa Sweet
3 April 2020
The health system is changing in previously inconceivable ways, but let’s make sure those most in need don’t get lost along the way
National Affairs
Gap year
Lesley Russell
13 February 2020
The latest Closing the Gap report brings cause both for scepticism and for guarded optimism
Essays & Reportage
Reading Bruce Pascoe
Tom Griffiths
26 November 2019
The author’s compelling yet curiously old-fashioned account of Indigenous history has inspired and empowered
Books & Arts
Centres of gravity
Jane Goodall
8 November 2019
Television
| A mid-season shift of gear takes
Total Control
into different territory
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