Other Voices
17 December 2025
A vast country can be seen in different but not necessarily contradictory ways
Books & arts
15 December 2025
Historian Shayne Breen goes deep into Tasmania’s past, and illuminates its present
Books & arts
15 December 2025
In his new book, Henry Reynolds turns Australian history on its head
National affairs
10 December 2025
A new party for disaffected small-l Liberals? That’s been tried before
Essays & reportage
28 November 2025
Fifty years later, what impact has the Dismissal had on Australian democracy?
Books & arts
17 November 2025
Does the 1929 Wall Street crash hold a message for our times?
Books & arts
16 November 2025
Accusations that her grandmother was a communist spy or a fascist collaborator — or both — sent Lea Ypi back to Albania and into her own imagination
Books & arts
14 November 2025
Drusilla Modjeska’s questing account of modernist artist-women in twentieth-century Europe
Books & arts
11 November 2025
Audacious African-American singer, dancer and actor Josephine Baker earned her place among France’s wartime greats
Books & arts
10 November 2025
Conservative activist William F. Buckley cajoled America along the road to the Reagan revolution
National affairs
10 November 2025
Two breaches of parliamentary convention made possible the dismissal of Gough Whitlam’s government
Essays & reportage
4 November 2025
Despite grappling with a double disadvantage, Margaret Walkom resolved to go her own way
Books & arts
31 October 2025
The curious afterlife of Samuel Pepys’s diary
Books & arts
29 October 2025
Uwe Wittstock’s Marseille 1940 is a marvel of narrative art
Essays & reportage
28 October 2025
Old-timers still abound in the Pacific
Books & arts
24 October 2025
Hope can be found in the history of Australian feminism. But what best to do next?
Books & arts
22 October 2025
A prize-winning account of Soviet-era human rights activists throws light on Putin’s Russia
Books & arts
20 October 2025
Ireland’s devastating Great Famine is also part of Australia’s European history
Books & arts
16 October 2025
An impulse to recover stories from before India’s 1947 Partition yields a sweeping account of the aftermath of empire
Essays & reportage
15 October 2025
A visit to Australia helps unlock a mystery
National affairs
2 October 2025
The great tariff clash shows how the Coalition manages to survive deep differences of opinion
Books & arts
2 October 2025
“A catalyst, a provocation, and a reassurance”: Asa Briggs combined prolific history-writing with an extraordinary range of other activities
Books & arts
23 September 2025
How children and fathers experienced twentieth-century Australia
Books & arts
16 September 2025
Gertrude Stein’s latest biographer continues the debate about her wartime activities
Essays & reportage
15 September 2025
What does a ban on men’s shirts have to do with Papua New Guinea’s independence?
Books & arts
12 September 2025
Time — and the law — took its toll on a special taskforce created by the Hawke government
National affairs
5 September 2025
Memorials to the violence against “comfort women” risk being hijacked by competitive victimhood
Books & arts
5 September 2025
How did female friendship become subject to suffocatingly high standards?
Books & arts
1 September 2025
An archaeologist makes the case for toppling statues and returning plunder
Books & arts
18 August 2025
Netflix’s struggle with Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s deeply conservative novel