National affairs
31 July 2018
From the archive | The Age’s history shows how Fairfax’s strategy put the paper’s identity at risk
National affairs
27 July 2018
Australia’s last great media upheaval gave Rupert Murdoch the green light to dominate the press
National affairs
26 July 2018
When Channel Nine last tried to gain control of Fairfax, the broadcaster’s proprietor ran into trouble and an old friendship was sundered
Essays & reportage
14 July 2018
On the centenary of his death, it’s time for a supreme world-crossing entertainer to take his place in history
Books & arts
13 July 2018
Books | A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship”
Books & arts
6 July 2018
Books | Mark McKenna points to an alternative future for Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, in his Quarterly Essay
Books & arts
4 July 2018
Books | Badly designed technologies can trap users and thwart their understanding, argues lawyer–scientist Woodrow Hartzog. Good design can do the opposite
From the archive
2 July 2018
Two compelling works of hybrid non-fiction explore how the past lives on in the present
National affairs
2 July 2018
Have Australian conservatives lost sight of the core features of their own philosophy?
Books & arts
26 June 2018
Books | Journalist Scott Tong has unearthed an alternative history of China’s twentieth century
Books & arts
26 June 2018
Phillipa McGuinness chronicles a year when time sped up
National affairs
26 June 2018
Did the Ramsay Centre throw away its best chance by pushing ANU too far?
National affairs
18 June 2018
The weekend’s call to privatise the ABC wouldn’t have impressed the founder of the party
Essays & reportage
14 June 2018
Have we lost sight of who Captain Cook really was?
Essays & reportage
30 May 2018
Extract | A research project is exploring an extraordinary trove of Nyungar letters in Western Australia’s Aboriginal archive
International
29 May 2018
The British government’s torment of West Indians links two national fixations: immigration and Europe
Essays & reportage
18 April 2018
The Australian prime minister knew that any attempt to resurrect the old British Empire in Asia was doomed to failure
International
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
Essays & reportage
12 April 2018
Extract | Hidden behind the scandal of Mollie Dean’s death was a story worth telling
Books & arts
9 April 2018
Visual Arts | The temptation is to look away. But what are we really trying to avoid?
Essays & reportage
8 April 2018
The story of Elizabeth Macarthur, a driving force in early New South Wales, highlights gaps in the story of colonial Australia
Books & arts
7 April 2018
Books | A remarkable novel by a one-time internee in Australia has attracted critical acclaim in Germany
Essays & reportage
28 March 2018
Extract | A new biography probes the remarkable life of the Indigenous rights campaigner Mary Montgomerie Bennett
Essays & reportage
23 March 2018
Extract | In the earliest days of Australian archaeology, Isabel McBryde set out to decipher the landscape of New England
National affairs
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
23 February 2018
Over almost a century, relations between the two major non-Labor parties haven’t always been smooth
National affairs
20 February 2018
How did Australia’s upper house evolve into a part-elected, part-nominated body?
Essays & reportage
8 February 2018
Extract | Posted to Chungking in 1941, Keith Waller found his allies almost as challenging as the enemy
National affairs
2 February 2018
Three snapshots of Australia’s national archives reveal delays and anomalies in public access
Books & arts
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