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Books & arts An extra-ordinary collaboration Michelle Staff 9 July 2024 Two institutions have joined forces to open up Australian history using storied objects Books & arts Hobart’s gentleman body-snatchers Ian McShane 25 June 2024 A chance find opened up a hidden world to historian Cassandra Pybus Books & arts Brutal birth Hamish McDonald 20 June 2024 Indonesia’s emergence was both more violent and more pioneering than commonly imagined Essays & reportage Afternoon tea with Mary Gilmore Anne-Marie Condé 18 June 2024 In search of the women behind the The Worker Cook Book

Books & arts “I weep more at a wedding than a funeral” Kate Fullagar 5 April 2024 The earliest bluestockings pioneered a new way of thinking about women like themselves. But what about the wider world? Books & arts Roaring back Jane Goodall 30 March 2024 A major new series about the postwar world poses the inevitable question: has the cold war returned? Essays & reportage Olympic origins Jock Given 20 March 2024 Queensland premier Steven Miles is learning an old lesson about sporting venues: sometimes it is best to love the ones you have International Prescient president Mike Steketee 8 March 2024 On the Middle East, renewable energy, American power and much else, Jimmy Carter was ahead of his time

Books & arts The younger Menzies Paul Rodan 6 February 2024 Australia’s longest-serving prime minister emerges sympathetically from the first two of a projected four-volume survey Essays & reportage John Curtin’s potato Anne-Marie Condé 26 January 2024 A gift to a prime minister gives a glimpse of the life of an Australian toiler Books & arts Making a meal of it Martha Macintyre 22 January 2024 How technology, migration and population transformed crops, foods and ways of eating Books & arts China’s underground historians Linda Jaivin 5 January 2024 A veteran China watcher uncovers a network of counter-historians