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First Nations
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
The translator
Tim Rowse
5 April 2023
A capacity to enable fruitful cross-cultural interaction was among the strengths of Yolngu leader Yunupingu, who died last weekend
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
National Affairs
Treaty-making gathers pace
Harry Hobbs
17 March 2023
Most state and territory governments have commenced negotiations with First Nation peoples
National Affairs
Just remind me, what is the Constitution?
Peter Brent
15 February 2023
There are good reasons to be sceptical about recent polling on the Voice referendum
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
Books & Arts
A dictionary for the future
Michael Dillon
1 February 2023
The
Gija Dictionary
opens a window on the sophisticated culture of the people of the East Kimberley
National Affairs
What’s in it for everyone?
Peter Brent
23 January 2023
Plenty, in fact, so the government needs to avoid getting derailed by the Voice’s critics (and some of its friends)
Essays & Reportage
The strange career of the great Australian silence
Dean Ashenden
15 November 2022
How a journey north from Adelaide led to
Telling Tennant’s Story
, the 2022 Political Book of the Year
Essays & Reportage
Hot, wild heart
Eleanor Hogan
24 October 2022
Despite its extremes, Mparntwe Alice Springs still maintains a grip
Books & Arts
Behind the law’s “sheen of neutrality”
Kate Rossmanith
26 September 2022
In
Black Lives, White Law
, Russell Marks points towards a more hopeful future
Books & Arts
Casting Mystery Road
Jane Goodall
3 September 2022
Director Dylan River, producer Greer Simpkin and casting director Anousha Zarkesh talk to
Inside Story
about creating an ensemble with chemistry
Books & Arts
Thinking Black
Tim Rowse
11 January 2022
A new biography shows how William Cooper set out to civilise white Australia
Books & Arts
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
Essays & Reportage
Uptight and uncomfortable
Renée Jeffery
22 November 2021
How can we improve Australia’s uneasy engagement with the global human rights system?
Essays & Reportage
Telling truths
Tim Rowse
10 September 2021
What will emerge from an Indigenous-led process of truth-telling?
National Affairs
The elephants in the courtroom
Jeremy Gans
10 September 2021
The justice system’s dealings with the police officer accused of killing Kumanjayi Walker are shadowed by cases past
Essays & Reportage
All that remains
Kate Fullagar
30 August 2021
The burial sites of Bennelong and Arthur Phillip suggest new ways of thinking about early Australia
Essays & Reportage
The beauty and the terror
Tom Griffiths
6 August 2021
Mandy Martin, Australian artist
Books & Arts
The trouble with history
Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe
6 August 2021
The authors of
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate
respond to Bill Gammage’s “The Great Divide”
Books & Arts
A Liberal’s case for the Voice to Parliament
Tim Rowse
9 July 2021
Andrew Bragg is on the right side of the debate, but the gaps in his argument are revealing
National Affairs
The place of reconciliation
Amanda Nettelbeck
29 June 2021
Does our opening up to Indigenous history work best locally?
National Affairs
Timing is (almost) everything
Peter Brent
22 June 2021
Can a referendum on the Voice to Parliament succeed?
Books & Arts
The teller and the tale
Tim Rowse
16 June 2021
What is Indigenous knowledge and who has it? Tim Rowse reviews Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s critique of Bruce Pascoe’s
Dark Emu
Essays & Reportage
Why does Truth come third?
Kate Fullagar
8 June 2021
The awarding of the Sydney Peace Prize to the Uluru Statement from the Heart is a reminder of the challenges it raises for historians
Essays & Reportage
Land of plenty
Amanda Nettelbeck
26 March 2021
Is the federal government looking for too much unity in a country nourished by difference?
Essays & Reportage
How the world spins
Mark Baker
19 March 2021
Mark Baker
recalls an encounter with David Gulpilil in 1998
National Affairs
The Sámi’s voice
Harry Hobbs
8 February 2021
Does Sweden’s Sámediggi offer lessons for Australia’s Indigenous Voice to Parliament?
Books & Arts
Tasman bubble
Jock Given
30 November 2020
Books
| The links have been quietly developing for decades, but there’s still much more Australia can learn from its nearest eastern neighbour
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