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Essays & reportage Friend or foe? Anthropology’s encounter with Aborigines Gillian Cowlishaw 19 August 2015 Anthropologists might have been implicated in colonial policies and practices, writes Gillian Cowlishaw, but for many decades theirs was the only scholarly discipline… Essays & reportage This glorious moment Stuart Macintyre 12 August 2015 Extract | Seventy years ago this week, prime minister Ben Chifley announced that the war in the Pacific was over. Planning for peace was already well under way, writes… Essays & reportage The Australian who rewrote world history Robin Derricourt 10 August 2015 In the face of expert opposition, scientist Grafton Elliot Smith promoted the theory that ancient Egypt was the source of almost every major innovation. It was a campaign that… Essays & reportage The story behind the story Tom Griffiths 24 July 2015 Tom Griffiths welcomes a profound exploration of intergenerational memory

Books & arts A story for all seasons Jane Goodall 5 May 2015 Television | Jane Goodall reviews the BBC’s Wolf Hall Essays & reportage An un-Australian childhood Amirah Inglis 5 May 2015 This extract from her award-winning memoir opens as Amirah Inglis and her mother arrive in Melbourne from Europe in 1929 Essays & reportage Letters from a pilgrimage Ken Inglis 24 April 2015 In April 1965 Ken Inglis travelled to Gallipoli with 300 Anzac pilgrims and filed seven reports along the way for the Canberra Times. Here he introduces two of those despatches Essays & reportage Debts and other legacies Klaus Neumann 20 April 2015 Greece wants war reparations and loan repayments from Germany, writes Klaus Neumann. The idea isn’t as far-fetched as it might sound

International Tokyo, flickers of memory David Hayes 10 March 2015 The firebombing of March 1945 lives on the margins of public remembrance Essays & reportage An assault on the life of a people Janna Thompson 23 February 2015 As the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian genocide approaches, Janna Thompson considers the nature of the crime Books & arts Revolutionary Sydney Andrew Dodd 3 February 2015 Books | Three men and a city in turmoil. Andrew Dodd reviews two new books about Sydney’s formative years National affairs Conservatives in crisis Norman Abjorensen 3 February 2015 Australia’s conservative parties have always struggled to balance their priorities with the need for broader electoral appeal, writes Norman Abjorensen.…