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Recovered Lives
An Australian in silent Hollywood
Anne Rees
8 March 2019
Sylvia Breamer (1897–1943)
Recovered Lives
From Melbourne to Bletchley Park, and back
Shannon Lovelady
8 March 2019
Roma Craze (1915–95), intelligence analyst
Recovered Lives
A Piltindjeri woman who lived her culture
Kathryn Wells
8 March 2019
Katipelvild Margaret (Pinkie) Mack (1858–1954), Yaraldi-speaking Piltindjeri clanswoman
Recovered Lives
Matriarch of Darwin’s Chinese community
Elizabeth Kwan
7 March 2019
Lim Lee See (Granny Lum Loy) (c. 1887–1980)
Recovered Lives
Fearless on ice
Ross Carpenter
7 March 2019
Sadie Cambridge (1899–1968), ice-skating champion and coach
Recovered Lives
Feminism by consensus
Michal Bosworth and Charlie Fox
7 March 2019
Roma Catherine Gilchrist (1909–83), socialist, feminist and peace activist
Recovered Lives
The pioneering envoy who “waged war” on Canberra
Anne Rees
7 March 2019
A cache of letters reveals a fierce ambition and a fiery struggle
National affairs
Why do institutions fail to protect children?
Jennifer Martin & Matthew Ricketson
26 February 2019
With the child sexual abuse royal commission handing down its report, what have we learned so far about the dynamics of abusive institutions?
Essays & reportage
Appealing to the country
Tony Blackshield
19 February 2019
Parliament unworkable? There are precedents for sending MPs back to the people, but they might not embolden the governor-general
Books & arts
Dangerous oppositions
Brian McFarlane
6 February 2019
Cinema
| Two remarkable women receive two great portrayals in
Mary Queen of Scots
Essays & reportage
The butterfly effect
Jo Chandler
1 February 2019
Stalking a giant in Papua New Guinea’s ranges
Books & arts
From the ranks of the dead
Ray Cassin
29 January 2019
Books
| How much have the Irish contributed to an Australian identity? The debate continues
Correspondents
Japan between eras
David Hayes
29 January 2019
A Tokyo trip is another lesson in looking afresh
Essays & reportage
A love supreme
David Hayes
20 January 2019
Thirty years on, the riveting story of consuming devotion — and its buried chronicle — still haunts this reader
Books & arts
Radio revolutionary
Jock Given
14 January 2019
Books
| “Visionary” Sydney-born engineer Cyril Elwell played a pioneering role in what became Silicon Valley
National affairs
Bringing them home
Frank Bongiorno
1 January 2019
Cabinet Papers 1996–97
| Having inherited the inquiry into the removal of Indigenous children, the Howard government was able to extend its empathy only so far
Books & arts
What is civilisation anyway?
Janna Thompson
23 December 2018
Television
| The BBC’s big-budget remake illustrates how perspectives have changed
Essays & reportage
The man who called himself “the Vagabond”
Michael Cannon
17 December 2018
A social justice pioneer’s secret life is unveiled in a new book
Books & arts
The crocodile and the wafer
Ken Haley
17 December 2018
Books
| The interaction of traditional beliefs and Catholicism has helped shape Timor-Leste since the 1500s
Essays & reportage
What is the Liberal Party for?
Norman Abjorensen
7 December 2018
History could help the Liberals out of their malaise
Books & arts
Fighting on all fronts
Norman Abjorensen
3 December 2018
Books
| A new biography paints a nuanced picture of the man widely seen as Australia’s greatest prime minister
From the archive
Suspended between life and death
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
Billy Hughes and the flying egg
Peter Spearritt
9 November 2018
A little-known incident captures divisions among Australians during the first world war
Essays & reportage
The faces behind the stone
Scott Bennett
9 November 2018
A visit to Ypres prompts the question: do war memorials hide more than they reveal?
Essays & reportage
Gustav Klimt and the end of the Habsburg Empire
John Tilemann
9 November 2018
How is Austria marking the centenary of the end of the empire?
Books & arts
The true story of Billy McMahon
David Solomon
31 October 2018
Biography
| Tiberius meets his Tacitus in this lively biography of a less-than-glorious prime minister
Essays & reportage
The beard of the prophet
Tom Fitzgerald
30 October 2018
A visit to Thirroul and the man who remembers D.H. Lawrence
Essays & reportage
Inside “The House”
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
An exhibition extraordinary in its ordinariness
Annemarie McLaren
26 October 2018
Exhibition
| A carefully thought-out exhibition creates a compelling narrative out of everyday lives
Essays & reportage
Watching a brilliant thinker stretching his mind
Graeme Davison
11 October 2018
Why should we read Hugh Stretton in the twenty-first century?
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