Books & arts
27 March 2020
“I would like to be read by the people I went to school with,” said the historian Ken Inglis. “And by my parents. And by my children.”
Essays & reportage
5 March 2020
Extract | Historian Ken Inglis finds his vocation, reveals a talent for journalism, and embarks for Oxford
Essays & reportage
4 March 2020
As the season’s last scientific resupply journeys are made to Antarctica, a visitor observes the deepening impact of climate change
Books & arts
2 March 2020
Books | Has Geoffrey Robertson made a persuasive case for returning heritage objects?
Essays & reportage
21 February 2020
Covid-19 adds to the likelihood of dramatic change in the world’s largest nation
National affairs
20 February 2020
National Party infighting has a long but generally subterranean history
Essays & reportage
17 February 2020
Extract | For many Aboriginal people, Finniss Springs has been a homeland and a refuge
National affairs
4 February 2020
Will a Victorian MP save the National Party from itself?
National affairs
23 December 2019
The former premier’s reputation has been unfairly distorted by his opponents
National affairs
16 December 2019
Generational divides don’t explain much, though attitudes to climate and culture seem to be exceptions
Books & arts
15 December 2019
Books | A new collection of essays brings further proof that Great War history is unavoidably political
Essays & reportage
3 December 2019
George Seddon helped his readers see Australia from the inside
Books & arts
2 December 2019
Books | A Labor MP offers an optimistic view of what multicultural Australia could become
Essays & reportage
26 November 2019
The author’s compelling yet curiously old-fashioned account of Indigenous history has inspired and empowered
National affairs
18 November 2019
Australia’s most transformative prime ministers were in the right place at the right time
From the archive
6 November 2019
Melbourne’s Olympic year sums up why the fifties weren’t as dull as you might think
National affairs
30 October 2019
Organised rural voters first made their voices heard a century ago, with enduring implications
Books & arts
21 October 2019
Books | By recovering the forgotten history of the long-haired rat, Tim Bonyhady has produced a book for our times
Essays & reportage
16 October 2019
Four weeks of suspense culminated in the demise of Victoria’s most controversial modern-day government in October 1999
Essays & reportage
26 September 2019
Former Labor national secretary David Combe, who died this week, found himself in the middle of a maelstrom in March 1983, just as his party was taking government
Essays & reportage
9 September 2019
Extract | How collaborative work can be liberating and effective
Books & arts
13 August 2019
Books | Two women’s experience of deafness, a century apart
Books & arts
1 August 2019
Books | American filmmakers viewed England through the lens of contemporary history
Essays & reportage
28 July 2019
A former member of Gough Whitlam’s staff recalls a visit to Tientsin forty-three years ago
Essays & reportage
21 July 2019
They went to the moon but discovered the Earth
Books & arts
19 July 2019
Television | Etched in Bone tells its story with restraint and empathy
Essays & reportage
30 June 2019
Australia steered the goal of full employment into the international postwar order
National affairs
26 June 2019
Secrecy and convenience don’t always coincide in Australia’s highly accessible electoral system
Books & arts
25 June 2019
Books | Maurice and Doris Blackburn resisted the pull of the mainstream
Books & arts
21 June 2019
Books | Historian James Dunk illuminates the colony’s manias and madnesses