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Books & arts
Sydney on the edge
Sara Dowse
21 June 2019
Books
| Historian James Dunk illuminates the colony’s manias and madnesses
Books & arts
North of Capricorn
Henry Reynolds
11 June 2019
Books
| Feelings of neglect continue to shape sentiment in Australia’s northern reaches
National affairs
Bracing times for true believers
Peter Brent
17 May 2019
What was the secret of Bob Hawke’s electoral success?
Essays & reportage
Who controls opinion polling in Australia, what else we need to know about the polls, and why it matters
Murray Goot
15 May 2019
The decision by former Fairfax papers to sack one of their market researchers raised thorny questions about pollsters and their polls
National affairs
Getting the numbers
Rodney Tiffen
13 May 2019
Inside Story
’s guide to seventy years of parties, polling and politics
Essays & reportage
The game changer
Robert Milliken
10 May 2019
A new statue of Aboriginal rights leader William Ferguson links politics past and present
Correspondents
Thirty years on, a spirit of reconciliation in New Caledonia
Nic Maclellan
10 May 2019
The legacy of assassinated Kanak independence leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou still drives the movement for independence in the French Pacific dependency
International
Slow converts to the cause
Janna Thompson
30 April 2019
Reparations for slavery have moved from the fringes of American political debate
Essays & reportage
“Hard ill-fortune”: a lost distant cousin and a place called Pozières
Tom Hyland
25 April 2019
A chance reference leads to a bloody battlefield and a different Australia
Books & arts
A story that refuses to accept its own moral
Tom Greenwell
17 April 2019
Books
| Was the Vietnam war a failed but noble bid to save a free nation, or a stubborn attempt to thwart self-determination?
Correspondents
The fall and rise of German angst
Klaus Neumann
16 April 2019
A decade ago, that distinctive national mood seemed to have died out. And then came the rise of far-right populism
National affairs
Malcolm Fraser’s real mistake
Judith Betts
12 April 2019
Contemporary records show that Australia didn’t adequately assist refugees admitted during the Lebanese civil war
Books & arts
The making of an Australian suburb
Chris Cunneen
22 March 2019
Books
| Sydney’s Paddington was shaped by topography and “builders of modest means”
Books & arts
A new immediacy
Jane Goodall
12 March 2019
Television
| A new series releases Australia’s past from the familiar black-and-white
Books & arts
The decade of thinking dangerously
Susan Lever
8 March 2019
The 1970s saw the rise of women as a political constituency in Australia
Recovered Lives
Why don’t we know their names?
Melanie Nolan
8 March 2019
Introducing our collection of articles on Australian history’s missing women, in collaboration with the
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Recovered Lives
Forthright and hardworking, this corsetmaker founded a retail empire
Barbara Dawson
8 March 2019
Ann Hordern (c. 1791–1871), founder of Anthony Hordern & Sons
Recovered Lives
The “incorrigible” convict with a sharp tongue
Nichola Garvey
8 March 2019
Catherine Henrys (c. 1806–55)
Recovered Lives
“High time” for the Huddersfield Four
Nichola Garvey
8 March 2019
Lydia Clay (1811–58), Elizabeth Quarmby (1822–93), Mary Ann Wentworth (1824–1911) and Ruth Richardson (1817–58), transportees
Recovered Lives
Farmer, businesswoman — and founder of Penfolds
Julie McIntyre
8 March 2019
Mary Penfold (1816–95)
Recovered Lives
Pioneering medic blazed the trail
Karen Fox
8 March 2019
Iza Coghlan (1868–1946), doctor
Recovered Lives
This widely travelled public servant knew the costs of migration
Peter Davies
8 March 2019
Lucy Hicks (1833–1909), administrator
Recovered Lives
How “the Captain’s Lady” created her own legend
Meg Foster
8 March 2019
Mary Ann Bugg (1834–1905), Indigenous bushranger
Recovered Lives
A brief life seen through “wild bright eyes”
Alison Alexander
8 March 2019
Mathinna (c. 1835—?), Port Sorell woman
Recovered Lives
A comet across the feminist landscape
Deborah Jordan
8 March 2019
Frances Georgina Watts Higgins (1860–1948), landscape architect and feminist
Recovered Lives
Pitch and prejudice
Madeleine Lindsell
8 March 2019
Helen Australia (Nellie) Gregory (1863–1950) and Louisa Caroline Gregory (1865–1903), cricketers
Recovered Lives
The dressmaker who became Bondi’s elusive beachcomber
Melanie Nolan
8 March 2019
Ellen Peterson/Helen Packer/Madame Pacquer/“Bondi Mary” (1870–1941)
Recovered Lives
“Just hear the birds from Bendigo”
Nicole McLennan
8 March 2019
Lili Sharp (1876–1964), singer
Recovered Lives
On the edge of history
Alexandra McKinnon
8 March 2019
Nell Malone (1881–1963), hospital orderly and governess
Recovered Lives
Another brilliant career
Alexandra McKinnon
8 March 2019
Kathleen Ussher (1891–1983), illustrator, writer, public servant
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