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Essays & Reportage Norman Abjorensen 7 December 2018 History could help the Liberals out of their malaise
Books & Arts Norman Abjorensen 3 December 2018 Books | A new biography paints a nuanced picture of the man widely seen as Australia’s greatest prime minister Books & Arts Richard Johnstone 16 November 2018 Peter Jackson’s vivid account of the Great War is also a tribute to the art of the cinema Essays & Reportage Peter Spearritt 9 November 2018 A little-known incident captures divisions among Australians during the first world war Essays & Reportage Scott Bennett 9 November 2018 A visit to Ypres prompts the question: do war memorials hide more than they reveal?
Essays & Reportage John Tilemann 9 November 2018 How is Austria marking the centenary of the end of the empire?
Books & Arts David Solomon 31 October 2018 Biography | Tiberius meets his Tacitus in this lively biography of a less-than-glorious prime minister Essays & Reportage Tom Fitzgerald 30 October 2018 A visit to Thirroul and the man who remembers D.H. Lawrence Essays & Reportage Sylvia Martin 29 October 2018 Forty-five years ago, Sylvia Martin was among the actors who performed in the earliest productions at the Sydney Opera House Books & Arts Annemarie McLaren 26 October 2018 Exhibition | A carefully thought-out exhibition creates a compelling narrative out of everyday lives
Essays & Reportage Graeme Davison 11 October 2018 Why should we read Hugh Stretton in the twenty-first century?
Books & Arts Sylvia Martin 1 October 2018 Australian suffragettes played a sometimes flamboyant role in the fight for the vote, at home and in Britain Essays & Reportage Ken Inglis 26 September 2018 The influential fortnightly magazine Nation was launched in Sydney sixty years ago today. In this essay first published in 1989, one of its best-known contributors… Essays & Reportage Robbie Robertson 24 September 2018 The Ramsay Centre is still seeking a home for its Western civilisation course, but the concept itself doesn’t stand up to scrutiny Correspondents Graeme Dobell 13 September 2018 Are America and Australia two allies separated by a common language?
Essays & Reportage Bridget Griffen-Foley 27 August 2018 While Fairfax’s future seems likely to be in the hands of Nine, much of its past has recently been made accessible at the State Library of New South Wales. At a symposium…
Essays & Reportage Annabel Stafford 9 August 2018 A visit to the site of Wyndham’s Native Hospital prompts the question: what does it mean to live outside the protection of the state? Essays & Reportage Peter Cochrane 2 August 2018 Extract | As the first world war approached, anxiety grew about the vulnerability of Australia to attack from the north. A key role was played by the man who would be the… National Affairs Sybil Nolan 31 July 2018 From the archive | The Age’s history shows how Fairfax’s strategy put the paper’s identity at risk National Affairs Frank Bongiorno 27 July 2018 Extract | Australia’s last great media upheaval gave Rupert Murdoch the green light to dominate the press
National Affairs Rodney Tiffen 26 July 2018 From the archive | When Channel Nine last tried to gain control of Fairfax, the broadcaster’s proprietor ran into trouble and an old friendship was sundered
Essays & Reportage David Hayes 14 July 2018 On the centenary of his death, it’s time for a supreme world-crossing entertainer to take his place in history Books & Arts Peter Mares 13 July 2018 Books | A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship” Books & Arts Bronwyn Carlson 6 July 2018 Books | Mark McKenna points to an alternative future for Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, in his Quarterly Essay Books & Arts Megan Richardson 4 July 2018 Books | Badly designed technologies can trap users and thwart their understanding, argues lawyer–scientist Woodrow Hartzog. Good design can do the opposite
Essays & Reportage Drusilla Modjeska 2 July 2018 Review essay | Two compelling works of hybrid non-fiction explore how the past lives on in the present
National Affairs Grant Wyeth 2 July 2018 Have Australian conservatives lost sight of the core features of their own philosophy? Books & Arts Graeme Smith 26 June 2018 Books | Journalist Scott Tong has unearthed an alternative history of China’s twentieth century Books & Arts Graeme Davison 26 June 2018 Phillipa McGuinness chronicles a year when time sped up National Affairs Frank Bongiorno 26 June 2018 Did the Ramsay Centre throw away its best chance by pushing ANU too far?