Inside Story

Essays & reportage Australia’s forgotten colonial history Klaus Neumann 15 September 2025 What does a ban on men’s shirts have to do with Papua New Guinea’s independence? Books & arts Australia’s Nazi hunters Ruth Balint 12 September 2025 Time — and the law — took its toll on a special taskforce created by the Hawke government National affairs Commemorating the peace or remembering the war? Antonia Finnane 5 September 2025 Memorials to the violence against “comfort women” risk being hijacked by competitive victimhood Books & arts Friends like these Alecia Simmonds 5 September 2025 How did female friendship become subject to suffocatingly high standards?

Essays & reportage Keen as mustard Anne-Marie Condé 18 July 2025 What really happened when boffins gathered in Canberra in 1939? Essays & reportage A political world we still inhabit Frank Bongiorno 2 July 2025 Historian John Hirst founded a career on a distinctive view of colonial Australian politics Books & arts Reeled in by the Reich Philippa Hawker 1 July 2025 A sharp, grim, exhilarating novel engages with the real-life story of a filmmaker’s return to Nazi Germany Books & arts Imperialism’s stamping ground Jim Davidson 30 June 2025 A new book explores the culture of philately

Essays & reportage The American clever man Martin Thomas 5 June 2025 How an Arnhem Land community distilled the 1948 American–Australian Scientific Expedition into a figure with unusual powers Books & arts Empire of the southern seas Alessandro Antonello 27 May 2025 Australia is better seen as a vast archipelago, according to a new exploration of its iciest reaches Books & arts Ben Chifley versus the banks Stephen Mills 26 May 2025 The former Labor PM’s battle with the banks still matters — for both sides of politics National affairs 1943’s message to the Liberal Party Zachary Gorman 23 May 2025 The case for sticking with the suspension of the Coalition