Books & arts
18 December 2017
Books | Mary Beard writes with characteristic verve about the long history of men silencing women
From the archive
17 December 2017
A chance encounter anticipated the shocking disappearance of a prime minister on 17 December 1967
International
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
6 December 2017
… and how they shared what they learned with the Americans
Essays & reportage
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
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
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
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
13 November 2017
Malcolm Turnbull’s loss of a majority in parliament has at least one illuminating precedent
Books & arts
8 November 2017
An appreciation of journalist, critic and film industry activist Sylvia Lawson, who died this week
From the archive
3 November 2017
Extract | A puzzling gift sends one of Australia’s leading biographers on a journey into her family’s past
National affairs
31 October 2017
Malcolm Turnbull is the latest leader to rebuff carefully developed Indigenous proposals
Books & arts
15 October 2017
Books | Sheila Fitzpatrick brilliantly illuminates her subject and his tumultuous times
Essays & reportage
10 October 2017
A gathering flow of news about the revolutionary movement in Russia reached Australian readers during 1917
Essays & reportage
3 October 2017
The man who first imagined the Australian War Memorial was also active in the creation of another key institution
Essays & reportage
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
11 September 2017
Extract | Fiji’s tale of contemporary misadventure reveals the challenges of inheritance
National affairs
4 September 2017
Can we hold more than one idea in our heads at the same time?
Books & arts
4 September 2017
How did film-makers resolve the paradox of creating complex feature films during a period of total war?
Books & arts
1 September 2017
Books | Shashi Tharoor’s vigorous rejoinder to defenders of empire teaches other lessons as well
Books & arts
24 August 2017
Books | An outstanding new biography traces the life of the man who dominated early federal politics
Books & arts
31 July 2017
Books | Donald Horne is a breezy, argumentative and sometimes wrong-headed guide to postwar Australia
Essays & reportage
28 July 2017
Don’t be dazzled by the numbers. What counts is how this latest archaeological find contributes to our understanding of Australia’s deep and dynamic history
National affairs
28 July 2017
Conservative Catholics left Labor in the mid 1950s – and we now know they were bound for the Liberal Party
Essays & reportage
18 July 2017
Extract | How Geoffrey Bolton’s environmental history made a difference
International
12 July 2017
Despite more than a century of negotiations, the China–India border dispute has flared again, this time under two strongly nationalist leaders
Essays & reportage
26 June 2017
The Aboriginal community at La Perouse, on Botany Bay, has long been at the centre of a web of relationships
Books & arts
19 June 2017
Books | Careful marketing helped ease the arrival of 170,000 migrants from postwar Europe
Books & arts
14 June 2017
A rediscovered memoir and a multi-season French drama point to new ways of thinking about the second world war
National affairs
26 May 2017
Fifty years ago this weekend, Australians voted on two constitutional changes. One of them was defeated, and that’s still influencing election results today