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Essays & reportage Billy Griffiths 23 March 2018 Extract | In the earliest days of Australian archaeology, Isabel McBryde set out to decipher the landscape of New England
National affairs 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 Norman Abjorensen 23 February 2018 Over almost a century, relations between the two major non-Labor parties haven’t always been smooth National affairs Paul Rodan 20 February 2018 How did Australia’s upper house evolve into a part-elected, part-nominated body? Essays & reportage Alan Fewster 8 February 2018 Extract | Posted to Chungking in 1941, Keith Waller found his allies almost as challenging as the enemy
National affairs Tim Sherratt 2 February 2018 Three snapshots of Australia’s national archives reveal delays and anomalies in public access
Books & arts Richard White 2 February 2018 Books | This new edition of John Rickard’s pathbreaking book is a reminder that he anticipated many of the concerns of subsequent generations of historians National affairs Frank Bongiorno and Darren Pennay 26 January 2018 What happens when Australians are asked to name the most significant historical events of their lifetimes? National affairs Mike Steketee 23 January 2018 Evidence suggests that Australians aren’t strongly wedded to celebrating a national day on 26 January Books & arts Julie Rigg 19 January 2018 Cinema | Archetypes are challenged in Warwick Thornton’s latest film
National affairs Bill Hannan 11 January 2018 Before he joined the Age, Ron Tandberg played a key role in Victorian teachers’ campaign for professional recognition
Books & arts 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 Sara Dowse 18 December 2017 Books | Mary Beard writes with characteristic verve about the long history of men silencing women From the archive Tom Griffiths 17 December 2017 A chance encounter anticipated the shocking disappearance of a prime minister fifty years ago International 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
Essays & reportage Carl Bridge 6 December 2017 … and how they shared what they learned with the Americans
Essays & reportage Alex Millmow 6 December 2017 Called on the eve of a revolution in economic thinking, the 1936–37 banking royal commission mattered in ways that the latest one probably won’t Books & arts Peter Browne 5 December 2017 Ken Inglis was not only a widely admired historian but also a gifted reporter and a sharp-eyed pioneer of press criticism National affairs Tim Colebatch 14 November 2017 Bad drafting, bad interpretation and bad politics have contributed to an unnecessary crisis. The solution is in the hands of parliament Essays & reportage Mathew Turner 14 November 2017 Controversy has erupted in Germany over the attitudes of key researchers at the Institute for Contemporary History in the 1950s. But does the evidence support the critics’ case?
National affairs David Clune 13 November 2017 Malcolm Turnbull’s loss of a majority in parliament has at least one illuminating precedent
Books & arts Tom O'Regan 8 November 2017 An appreciation of journalist, critic and film industry activist Sylvia Lawson, who died this week From the archive Brenda Niall 3 November 2017 Extract | A puzzling gift sends one of Australia’s leading biographers on a journey into her family’s past National affairs Tom Griffiths 31 October 2017 Malcolm Turnbull is the latest leader to rebuff carefully developed Indigenous proposals Books & arts Maruta Rodan 15 October 2017 Books | Sheila Fitzpatrick brilliantly illuminates her subject and his tumultuous times
Essays & reportage Norman Abjorensen 10 October 2017 A gathering flow of news about the revolutionary movement in Russia reached Australian readers during 1917
Essays & reportage Anne-Marie Condé 3 October 2017 The man who first imagined the Australian War Memorial was also active in the creation of another key institution Essays & reportage Tony Blackshield 21 September 2017 Some of the most serious allegations against the reforming attorney-general turned High Court judge centre on his relationships — real or imagined — with three notorious… Essays & reportage Robbie Robertson 11 September 2017 Extract | Fiji’s tale of contemporary misadventure reveals the challenges of inheritance National affairs Frank Bongiorno 4 September 2017 Can we hold more than one idea in our heads at the same time?