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Books & arts Bronwyn Carlson 6 July 2018 Books | Mark McKenna points to an alternative future for Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, in his Quarterly Essay
Books & arts Megan Richardson 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 Drusilla Modjeska 2 July 2018 Two compelling works of hybrid non-fiction explore how the past lives on in the present National affairs Grant Wyeth 2 July 2018 Have Australian conservatives lost sight of the core features of their own philosophy? Books & arts Graeme Smith 26 June 2018 Books | Journalist Scott Tong has unearthed an alternative history of China’s twentieth century
Books & arts Graeme Davison 26 June 2018 Phillipa McGuinness chronicles a year when time sped up
National affairs Frank Bongiorno 26 June 2018 Did the Ramsay Centre throw away its best chance by pushing ANU too far? National affairs Norman Abjorensen 18 June 2018 The weekend’s call to privatise the ABC wouldn’t have impressed the founder of the party Essays & reportage Bruce Buchan 14 June 2018 Have we lost sight of who Captain Cook really was? Essays & reportage 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
International David Hayes 29 May 2018 The British government’s torment of West Indians links two national fixations: immigration and Europe
Essays & reportage 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 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 Essays & reportage Gideon Haigh 12 April 2018 Extract | Hidden behind the scandal of Mollie Dean’s death was a story worth telling Books & arts Julie Shiels 9 April 2018 Visual Arts | The temptation is to look away. But what are we really trying to avoid?
Essays & reportage Michelle Scott Tucker 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 Glenn Nicholls 7 April 2018 Books | A remarkable novel by a one-time internee in Australia has attracted critical acclaim in Germany Essays & reportage Sue Taffe 28 March 2018 Extract | A new biography probes the remarkable life of the Indigenous rights campaigner Mary Montgomerie Bennett 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