Books & arts
4 October 2016
From the archive | Helen Simpson’s Under Capricorn made a decades-long journey from novel to film to TV to DVD. Alfred Hitchcock’s version was a…
Essays & reportage
17 September 2016
Howard on Menzies makes for compelling viewing. But its flaws echo the shortcomings of Australia’s longest-serving prime minister
Essays & reportage
12 September 2016
Unions, residents and community groups took on a powerful government agency to thwart plans for the wholesale redevelopment of Australia’s oldest suburb, writes Jim Colman
Books & arts
9 September 2016
Books | Energy and ambition fuelled the rise and fall of a remarkable but flawed Labor leader, writes Paul Rodan
Essays & reportage
6 September 2016
Under his pseudonym “the Vagabond,” John Stanley James explored Australia’s major capital cities with fresh eyes in the 1870s and 80s. Here, he takes a culinary…
Essays & reportage
31 August 2016
Ever since William Thackeray satirised the London suburb of Clapham in 1855, critics and supporters of the suburbs have been battling it out, writes Graeme Davison
Essays & reportage
24 August 2016
Between their historic departure from Wave Hill station in 1966 and Gough Whitlam’s return of their land in 1975, the Gurindji people lived through a decade of uncertainty.…
Essays & reportage
11 August 2016
Tom Bamforth discovers the afterlife of Melbourne’s Olympic village
Essays & reportage
9 August 2016
For Eric Rolls, historical writing needed to serve the future, writes Tom Griffiths
Essays & reportage
4 August 2016
We now know much about what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. But the earliest reliable news came from maverick journalists, writes Matthew Ricketson
Essays & reportage
28 July 2016
Published fifty years ago, The Tyranny of Distance changed the way we see Australia, writes Graeme Davison
Podcasts
25 July 2016
Inside Language | Peter Clarke and Kate Burridge look at those persistent expressions that reflect dead and dying attitudes
Essays & reportage
15 July 2016
The buried secrets of Australia’s frontier share features with encounters in the United States, writes Ann McGrath
National affairs
11 July 2016
It’s not only Labor whose primary vote is at historic lows, writes Tim Colebatch. And there’s no mystery about why
National affairs
5 July 2016
Robert Menzies mastered it, but this might be one of the skills Malcolm Turnbull doesn’t share with his long-serving predecessor, writes Norman Abjorensen
Books & arts
5 July 2016
How do we reconcile an artist’s views with her work?
Essays & reportage
1 July 2016
He might have been an ardent admirer of the United States, but Harold Holt also brought welcome changes to Australia’s relations with the rest of the world, writes Paul Rodan
Essays & reportage
1 July 2016
Legal reforms in June 1966 removed much of the discrimination built into Australia’s migration policy, writes Gwenda Tavan
Books & arts
24 June 2016
Books | Maurizio Viroli wants us to take a fresh look at the political philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli, writes Brett Evans
16 June 2016
Dublin’s commemoration of the Easter 1916 rising against British rule had an inclusive message but a political undertow, says David Hayes
Books & arts
2 June 2016
Books | Angus McMillan’s name has become attached to at least one massacre in Victoria’s Gippsland region, writes Peter Crowley. But does the…
National affairs
1 June 2016
Like Malcolm Turnbull, John Gorton needed a solid win to cement his authority, writes Paul Rodan. And the parallels don’t end there
Books & arts
20 April 2016
Books | Helen Simonson offers a panoramic yet finely detailed view of a society heading for upheaval, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
8 April 2016
Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Son of Saul and The Daughter
Books & arts
8 April 2016
Books | The Australian prime ministership was created out of almost nothing during the first five decades of the twentieth century, writes Norman Abjorensen
Essays & reportage
5 April 2016
Why did Robert Menzies, no longer prime minister, lay the National Library’s foundation stone fifty years ago? Robyn Holmes scoured the archives to unravel a mystery
Books & arts
24 March 2016
Television | It’s War and Peace’s turn for another BBC adaptation, writes Jane Goodall. But perhaps some temptations should be resisted
Books & arts
21 March 2016
Books | Anna Clark gives academic historians plenty to think about, writes Carolyn Holbrook
International
15 March 2016
Harold Wilson, born a century ago this month, imprinted himself on the public imagination
Books & arts
1 March 2016
Books | Meg Gurry reviews Michael McKernan’s account of one family in war and peace