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Books & arts Brian Toohey 2 November 2016 Books | The latest volume of the official ASIO history reveals tensions with successive governments, but still no firm evidence that Soviet agents operated within its ranks
Books & arts Brett Evans 26 October 2016 Books | James Button’s tale of a football club made good has all the elements of classical drama National affairs Brian Toohey 4 October 2016 A new account of Britain’s nuclear tests in Australia reveals a long history of damaging suppression Books & arts Tanya Dalziell 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 Tim Colebatch 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 Jim Colman 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 Paul Rodan 9 September 2016 Books | Energy and ambition fuelled the rise and fall of a remarkable but flawed Labor leader, writes Paul Rodan Essays & reportage The Vagabond 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 Graeme Davison 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 Charlie Ward 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 Tom Bamforth 11 August 2016 Tom Bamforth discovers the afterlife of Melbourne’s Olympic village
Essays & reportage Tom Griffiths 9 August 2016 For Eric Rolls, historical writing needed to serve the future, writes Tom Griffiths Essays & reportage Matthew Ricketson 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 Graeme Davison 28 July 2016 Published fifty years ago, The Tyranny of Distance changed the way we see Australia, writes Graeme Davison Podcasts Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke 25 July 2016 Inside Language | Peter Clarke and Kate Burridge look at those persistent expressions that reflect dead and dying attitudes
Essays & reportage Ann McGrath 15 July 2016 The buried secrets of Australia’s frontier share features with encounters in the United States, writes Ann McGrath
National affairs Tim Colebatch 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 Norman Abjorensen 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 Andrew Ford 5 July 2016 How do we reconcile an artist’s views with her work? Essays & reportage Paul Rodan 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 Gwenda Tavan 1 July 2016 Legal reforms in June 1966 removed much of the discrimination built into Australia’s migration policy, writes Gwenda Tavan
Books & arts Brett Evans 24 June 2016 Books | Maurizio Viroli wants us to take a fresh look at the political philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli, writes Brett Evans David Hayes 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 Peter Crowley 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 Paul Rodan 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 Brian McFarlane 20 April 2016 Books | Helen Simonson offers a panoramic yet finely detailed view of a society heading for upheaval, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 8 April 2016 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Son of Saul and The Daughter Books & arts Norman Abjorensen 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 Robyn Holmes 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 Jane Goodall 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