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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?
National Affairs Norman Abjorensen 18 June 2018 The weekend’s call to privatise the ABC wouldn’t have impressed the founder of the party Essays & Reportage Bruce Buchan 14 June 2018 Have we lost sight of who Captain Cook really was? Essays & Reportage Anna Haebich, Darryl Kickett and Margaret Culbong 30 May 2018 Extract | A research project is exploring an extraordinary trove of Nyungar letters in Western Australia’s Aboriginal archive Correspondents David Hayes 29 May 2018 The British government’s torment of West Indians links two national fixations: immigration and Europe
Essays & Reportage David Fettling 18 April 2018 The Australian prime minister knew that any attempt to resurrect the old British Empire in Asia was doomed to failure
International Nic Maclellan 18 April 2018 This month’s CHOGM coincides with the sixtieth anniversary of a multi-megaton British nuclear test in the Pacific, covertly supported by Australia and other Commonwealth members Books & Arts Glenn Nicholls 17 April 2018 Books | A remarkable novel by a one-time internee in Australia has attracted critical acclaim in Germany Essays & Reportage Gideon Haigh 12 April 2018 Extract | Hidden behind the scandal of Mollie Dean’s death was a story worth telling Books & Arts Julie Shiels 9 April 2018 Visual Arts | The temptation is to look away. But what are we really trying to avoid?
Essays & Reportage Michelle Scott Tucker 8 April 2018 The story of Elizabeth Macarthur, a driving force in early New South Wales, highlights gaps in the story of colonial Australia
Essays & Reportage Sue Taffe 28 March 2018 Extract | A new biography probes the remarkable life of the Indigenous rights campaigner Mary Montgomerie Bennett Essays & Reportage Billy Griffiths 23 March 2018 Extract | In the earliest days of Australian archaeology, Isabel McBryde set out to decipher the landscape of New England National Affairs Marija Taflaga 26 February 2018 Can the big political parties regain a sense of legitimacy, or have the conditions that sustained them come to an end? National Affairs Norman Abjorensen 23 February 2018 Over almost a century, relations between the two major non-Labor parties haven’t always been smooth