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
National affairs
23 May 2025
The case for sticking with the suspension of the Coalition
Essays & reportage
20 May 2025
How a new moral consciousness began to stir in Australia
Books & arts
13 May 2025
Could diplomacy have changed the course of postwar Chinese history?
Books & arts
2 May 2025
A deep dive into the archives of controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl has some startling moments
Essays & reportage
30 April 2025
How Kathleen Fitzpatrick began exercising her historical imagination
Books & arts
29 April 2025
Time has transformed photographs of largely unknown people into representatives of an era
National affairs
28 April 2025
What history tells Australia about the US alliance
Books & arts
17 April 2025
What can colonial portraits tell us about the past?
Essays & reportage
11 April 2025
A Yes voter’s journey into her family’s past raises the question: what about those who voted No?
Essays & reportage
11 April 2025
Is Peter Dutton’s energy plan going the way of a succession of nuclear pushes?
Books & arts
10 April 2025
Robert Kaplan’s latest book is characteristically thoughtful and necessarily bleak
Other Voices
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
4 April 2025
A new book revives the debate about the behaviour of Australian troops in 1942
National affairs
14 March 2025
Peter Dutton should take the time to read his predecessor’s least-remembered thoughts about immigration policy
Books & arts
11 March 2025
New, modern and international, the Blue Poles purchase helped open up the world to Australia
Books & arts
7 March 2025
How did Joan Lindsay come to write Picnic at Hanging Rock?
Books & arts
4 March 2025
Robert Manne tracks almost half a century of political and cultural flux through an intensely personal lens
Books & arts
27 February 2025
A dual biography probes the underbelly of nineteenth-century Melbourne