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Essays & reportage Keynesians of the first hour 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 Historian of the present 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 Who’s to blame for the citizenship fiasco? It’s a long list 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 Historians’ disgrace? 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?

Essays & reportage Charles Bean and the making of the National Archives of Australia 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 Lionel Murphy and the presumption of guilt 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 The general’s goose Robbie Robertson 11 September 2017 Extract | Fiji’s tale of contemporary misadventure reveals the challenges of inheritance National affairs The statue wars Frank Bongiorno 4 September 2017 Can we hold more than one idea in our heads at the same time?

Essays & reportage Tearing down and building up Andrea Gaynor & Tom Griffiths 18 July 2017 Extract | How Geoffrey Bolton’s environmental history made a difference International Territory trouble Louise Merrington 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 ’Atween here and the Georges River Paul Irish 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 Selling “new Australians” to old Australians Maruta Rodan 19 June 2017 Books | Careful marketing helped ease the arrival of 170,000 migrants from postwar Europe