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
International
4 August 2025
Eighty years on, America is intensifying its military presence in the Pacific
Essays & reportage
30 July 2025
Eighty years ago, with the Pacific war drawing to a close, the celebrated war correspondent set out on a perilous spiritual journey
From the archive
28 July 2025
What happened when the satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer, who died on Saturday at ninety-seven, came to puritanical Adelaide in 1960?
National affairs
22 July 2025
Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are…
Essays & reportage
18 July 2025
What really happened when boffins gathered in Canberra in 1939?
Essays & reportage
2 July 2025
Historian John Hirst founded a career on a distinctive view of colonial Australian politics
Books & arts
1 July 2025
A sharp, grim, exhilarating novel engages with the real-life story of a filmmaker’s return to Nazi Germany
Books & arts
30 June 2025
A new book explores the culture of philately
Books & arts
26 June 2025
Classicist Robert Garland leads a tour of ancient attitudes to death and the afterlife
Books & arts
26 June 2025
Francis Picabia had never come across a woman like Gabriële Buffet
Essays & reportage
17 June 2025
Commemorating the German Peasants’ War and an early charter of human rights
Books & arts
16 June 2025
The first woman elected to NSW parliament used any means possible — from petitions to theatrical melodrama — to advance her causes
National affairs
10 June 2025
A government falls in Tasmania as debate redoubles over a costly AFL-imposed stadium
National affairs
6 June 2025
The looming hearing recalls cold war battles and a more recent courtroom defeat
Essays & reportage
5 June 2025
How an Arnhem Land community distilled the 1948 American–Australian Scientific Expedition into a figure with unusual powers
Books & arts
27 May 2025
Australia is better seen as a vast archipelago, according to a new exploration of its iciest reaches
Books & arts
26 May 2025
The former Labor PM’s battle with the banks still matters — for both sides of politics