Inside Story

Essays & reportage Ancestors’ words 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 How citizens became aliens David Hayes 29 May 2018 The British government’s torment of West Indians links two national fixations: immigration and Europe Essays & reportage When Chifley met Nehru, and the Commonwealth’s transformation began 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 The Commonwealth’s secret bomb 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

National affairs The end of the era of mass politics? 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 Keeping the country in the Coalition Norman Abjorensen 23 February 2018 Over almost a century, relations between the two major non-Labor parties haven’t always been smooth National affairs The long road to a hybrid Senate Paul Rodan 20 February 2018 How did Australia’s upper house evolve into a part-elected, part-nominated body? Essays & reportage The undiplomatic diplomat Alan Fewster 8 February 2018 Extract | Posted to Chungking in 1941, Keith Waller found his allies almost as challenging as the enemy

Books & arts An Iced VoVo and a broken heart Frank Bongiorno 5 January 2018 Books | Beyond the headlines it generated, Kevin Rudd’s memoir helps explain why he lost the prime ministership Books & arts What is power? Sara Dowse 18 December 2017 Books | Mary Beard writes with characteristic verve about the long history of men silencing women From the archive How Harold Holt was lost Tom Griffiths 17 December 2017 A chance encounter anticipated the shocking disappearance of a prime minister on 17 December 1967 International In the spirit of international solidarity Klaus Neumann 13 December 2017 The bid to create a UN convention on territorial asylum might have failed, but it points to possibilities still worth pursuing