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Essays & reportage Klaus Neumann 17 June 2025 Commemorating the German Peasants’ War and an early charter of human rights
Books & arts Zachary Gorman 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 Ian McShane 10 June 2025 A government falls in Tasmania as debate redoubles over a costly AFL-imposed stadium National affairs Karen Middleton 6 June 2025 The looming hearing recalls cold war battles and a more recent courtroom defeat Essays & reportage 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 Alessandro Antonello 27 May 2025 Australia is better seen as a vast archipelago, according to a new exploration of its iciest reaches
Books & arts Stephen Mills 26 May 2025 The former Labor PM’s battle with the banks still matters — for both sides of politics National affairs Zachary Gorman 23 May 2025 The case for sticking with the suspension of the Coalition Essays & reportage Tom Griffiths 20 May 2025 How a new moral consciousness began to stir in Australia Books & arts Pete Millwood 13 May 2025 Could diplomacy have changed the course of postwar Chinese history?
Books & arts Philippa Hawker 2 May 2025 A deep dive into the archives of controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl has some startling moments
Essays & reportage Anne-Marie Condé 30 April 2025 How Kathleen Fitzpatrick began exercising her historical imagination Books & arts Richard Johnstone 29 April 2025 Time has transformed photographs of largely unknown people into representatives of an era National affairs Graeme Dobell 28 April 2025 What history tells Australia about the US alliance Books & arts Kate Fullagar & Michael A. McDonnell 17 April 2025 What can colonial portraits tell us about the past?
Essays & reportage Dean Ashenden 11 April 2025 A Yes voter’s journey into her family’s past raises the question: what about those who voted No?
Essays & reportage Jessica Urwin 11 April 2025 Is Peter Dutton’s energy plan going the way of a succession of nuclear pushes? Books & arts Gordon Peake 10 April 2025 Robert Kaplan’s latest book is characteristically thoughtful and necessarily bleak Other Voices John Ganz 7 April 2025 Donald Trump’s trade policies couldn’t be more different from FDR’s labour-friendly efforts to open up America to the world Essays & reportage Mark Baker 4 April 2025 A new book revives the debate about the behaviour of Australian troops in 1942
National affairs Mike Steketee 14 March 2025 Peter Dutton should take the time to read his predecessor’s least-remembered thoughts about immigration policy
Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 11 March 2025 New, modern and international, the Blue Poles purchase helped open up the world to Australia Books & arts Cathy Perkins 7 March 2025 How did Joan Lindsay come to write Picnic at Hanging Rock? Books & arts Nicholas Brown 4 March 2025 Robert Manne tracks almost half a century of political and cultural flux through an intensely personal lens Books & arts Ken Haley 27 February 2025 A dual biography probes the underbelly of nineteenth-century Melbourne
Books & arts Paul Rodan 14 February 2025 Much good luck and a degree of good management enabled the long-serving prime minister to ride the postwar boom
Books & arts Julian Disney 7 February 2025 A new history of Australia’s postwar welfare system provides plenty of lessons for a better future Essays & reportage Peter Kirkpatrick 23 December 2024 Whatever happened to the communal enjoyment of poetry? Essays & reportage Iain Topliss 18 December 2024 Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons Books & arts Jon Richardson 9 December 2024 How will competition and cooperation between Russia and China in Central Asia affect the global balance of power?