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First Nations
Books & Arts
Centres of gravity
Jane Goodall
8 November 2019
Television
| A mid-season shift of gear takes
Total Control
into different territory
Books & Arts
Metamorphoses
Julie Rigg
13 September 2019
Cinema
| Jennifer Kent imagines an epic journey in
The Nightingale
National Affairs
The referendum conundrum
Peter Brent
20 August 2019
Attempts to change the Constitution often fail, but that doesn’t mean we should stop trying
Books & Arts
Coming home
Jane Goodall
19 July 2019
Television
|
Etched in Bone
tells its story with restraint and empathy
National Affairs
Indigenous affairs: how we’re choosing by not choosing
Michael Dillon & Neil Westbury
19 June 2019
We should all be aware of the great cost of inaction
National Affairs
Notes on an election
Peter Brent
7 June 2019
Dust settled, our correspondent pokes through the rubble
Essays & Reportage
The game changer
Robert Milliken
10 May 2019
A new statue of Aboriginal rights leader William Ferguson links politics past and present
Essays & Reportage
“We’ve lost our vision. A card cannot give vision to the community”
Eve Vincent
18 March 2019
How does welfare quarantining feel to the people on the receiving end?
Recovered Lives
How “the Captain’s Lady” created her own legend
Meg Foster
8 March 2019
Mary Ann Bugg (1834–1905), Indigenous bushranger
Recovered Lives
A brief life seen through “wild bright eyes”
Alison Alexander
8 March 2019
Mathinna (c. 1835—?), Port Sorell woman
Recovered Lives
A Piltindjeri woman who lived her culture
Kathryn Wells
8 March 2019
Katipelvild Margaret (Pinkie) Mack (1858–1954), Yaraldi-speaking Piltindjeri clanswoman
Essays & Reportage
Rethinking Australia’s borders
Genevieve Lloyd
27 February 2019
Read together, Behrouz Boochani’s
No Friend but the Mountains
and the Uluru Statement challenge us to look differently at national boundaries
National Affairs
Looking forward to constitutional reform by looking back at Uluru
Gabrielle Appleby
22 January 2019
The Uluru Statement’s plan for an Indigenous Voice should be put to a vote as soon as possible
National Affairs
Saving the War Memorial from itself
Dean Ashenden
15 January 2019
It’s time for the AWM to rethink its attitude to the frontier wars. But that means its critics, and the Labor Party, need to change tack too
National Affairs
Bringing them home
Frank Bongiorno
1 January 2019
Cabinet Papers 1996–97
| Having inherited the inquiry into the removal of Indigenous children, the Howard government was able to extend its empathy only so far
National Affairs
Breakthrough at Bourke
Robert Milliken
11 December 2018
An outback town’s gamble on cutting Indigenous crime is paying remarkable dividends
National Affairs
Rescuing the republic
Peter Brent
14 November 2018
The Voice and the republic might just add up to a winning combination
National Affairs
Don’t mention the war
Dean Ashenden
5 November 2018
Like the Australian War Memorial itself, many of its critics share a fundamental blind spot
Books & Arts
An exhibition extraordinary in its ordinariness
Annemarie McLaren
26 October 2018
Exhibition
| A carefully thought-out exhibition creates a compelling narrative out of everyday lives
Essays & Reportage
Revival on the Darling
Robert Milliken
18 September 2018
An outback town finds a way to cut Indigenous crime and imprisonment where governments have failed
National Affairs
Voices of the land
Jane Goodall
5 September 2018
The ABC is experimenting with ways of deepening its coverage of regional Australia
Essays & Reportage
The hospital for bare life
Annabel Stafford
9 August 2018
A visit to the site of Wyndham’s Native Hospital prompts the question: what does it mean to live outside the protection of the state?
National Affairs
Towards an Indigenous Voice
Gabrielle Appleby
1 August 2018
The Uluru Statement from the Heart is beginning to have an impact in Canberra
Books & Arts
The people who forgot
Bronwyn Carlson
6 July 2018
Books
| Mark McKenna points to an alternative future for Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, in his
Quarterly Essay
Essays & Reportage
Ancestors’ words
Anna Haebich, Darryl Kickett and Margaret Culbong
30 May 2018
Extract
| A research project is exploring an extraordinary trove of Nyungar letters in Western Australia’s Aboriginal archive
From the archive
When did I grow up?
Deborah Cheetham
18 April 2018
It’s still happening, says the Yorta Yorta composer of
Pecan Summer
Essays & Reportage
Her childhood friends
Sue Taffe
28 March 2018
Extract
| A new biography probes the remarkable life of the Indigenous rights campaigner Mary Montgomerie Bennett
Essays & Reportage
Haunted country
Billy Griffiths
23 March 2018
Extract
| In the earliest days of Australian archaeology, Isabel McBryde set out to decipher the landscape of New England
National Affairs
Closing some gaps, opening others
Chris Bonnor
19 February 2018
Rising averages mask deepening inequalities in Indigenous education
National Affairs
It’s time for a new “unifying moment”
Mike Steketee
23 January 2018
Evidence suggests that Australians aren’t strongly wedded to celebrating a national day on 26 January
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