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National affairs It’s time for a new “unifying moment” Mike Steketee 23 January 2018 Evidence suggests that Australians aren’t strongly wedded to celebrating a national day on 26 January Books & arts Confounded expectations Julie Rigg 19 January 2018 Cinema | Archetypes are challenged in Warwick Thornton’s latest film National affairs Tandberg and the teachers 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 An Iced VoVo and a broken heart Frank Bongiorno 5 January 2018 Books | Beyond the headlines it generated, Kevin Rudd’s memoir helps explain why he lost the prime ministership

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? National affairs How Holman took on the House David Clune 13 November 2017 Malcolm Turnbull’s loss of a majority in parliament has at least one illuminating precedent Books & arts Demanding the impossible Tom O'Regan 8 November 2017 An appreciation of journalist, critic and film industry activist Sylvia Lawson, who died this week

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? Books & arts Cinema in a time of war Brian McFarlane 4 September 2017 How did film-makers resolve the paradox of creating complex feature films during a period of total war? Books & arts British India: the case for the prosecution Robin Jeffrey 1 September 2017 Books | Shashi Tharoor’s vigorous rejoinder to defenders of empire teaches other lessons as well