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National affairs
Growing bananas at the South Pole
Stephen Wilks
2 October 2025
The great tariff clash shows how the Coalition manages to survive deep differences of opinion
Books & arts
Now, down to business
Patrick Mullins
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
Authors of their own lives?
Marian Quartly
23 September 2025
How children and fathers experienced twentieth-century Australia
Books & arts
Certain ideas of France
Anne Freadman
16 September 2025
Gertrude Stein’s latest biographer continues the debate about her wartime activities
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?
Books & arts
Must all monuments fall?
Martha Macintyre
1 September 2025
An archaeologist makes the case for toppling statues and returning plunder
Books & arts
How The Leopard changed its spots
James Panichi
18 August 2025
Netflix’s struggle with Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s deeply conservative novel
International
Tip of the spear
Nic Maclellan
4 August 2025
Eighty years on, America is intensifying its military presence in the Pacific
Essays & reportage
George Johnston’s odyssey of war and peace
Paul Genoni & Tanya Dalziell
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
Hot night at Town Hall
Ken Inglis
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
The jewel in the crown of the ANU
Tom Griffiths and Mark McKenna
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
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
Books & arts
Seize the day!
Caitlin Mahar
26 June 2025
Classicist Robert Garland leads a tour of ancient attitudes to death and the afterlife
Books & arts
Something else
Sara Dowse
26 June 2025
Francis Picabia had never come across a woman like Gabriële Buffet
Essays & reportage
Quincentenary of a revolution
Klaus Neumann
17 June 2025
Commemorating the German Peasants’ War and an early charter of human rights
Books & arts
Millicent Preston Stanley’s vocation
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
Contested possession
Ian McShane
10 June 2025
A government falls in Tasmania as debate redoubles over a costly AFL-imposed stadium
National affairs
Labor’s Russian embassy headache returns to court
Karen Middleton
6 June 2025
The looming hearing recalls cold war battles and a more recent courtroom defeat
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
Essays & reportage
The ecological revolution
Tom Griffiths
20 May 2025
How a new moral consciousness began to stir in Australia
Books & arts
War by other means
Pete Millwood
13 May 2025
Could diplomacy have changed the course of postwar Chinese history?
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