International
The legacies of terror
Graeme Dobell
18 November 2015
Just over a century ago another movement tried to terrify the West, writes Graeme Dobell. Its failure helps illuminate ISIS’s campaign and its likely impact
Books & arts
The enigma of Keith Murdoch
Michael Cannon
18 November 2015
A new biography reveals a complex and contentious figure
International
The Dayton Accords and the confiscation of Bosnian memory
Damir Mitrić and Sudbin Musić
18 November 2015
The story of how London’s ArcelorMittal Orbit came to commemorate victims of genocide points to the failure of the settlement signed twenty years ago, write Damir …
Books & arts
Some of the things we weren’t meant to know about the Dismissal
Paul Rodan
10 November 2015
Books | The archives continue to reveal more about the events of late 1975, writes Paul Rodan. Now it’s time for the remaining embargoes to be lifted
“Something which touches every citizen in my country”
Daniel Nethery
30 October 2015
It’s seventy years since France introduced major social security laws. Daniel Nethery was there for the celebration
Books & arts
The stylish portraits of May and Mina Moore
Anne Maxwell
12 October 2015
Two NZ-born photographers created a remarkable body of work in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century
From the archive
Communist, scientist, lover, spy
Klaus Neumann
3 October 2015
The personal and the political are bound up in the life of anthropologist, Stasi informer and one-time Canberra resident Fred Rose
Essays & reportage
Weather, sharks and the world economy: the luck of the political cycle
Andrew Leigh
30 September 2015
When America sneezes, writes Andrew Leigh, Australian state governments catch a cold. And when the weather turns bad, guess who’s held responsible?
Books & arts
Bad moon rising
Jane Goodall
31 August 2015
Television | Aquarius is a frustrating package of potentially great ideas, writes Jane Goodall
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
National affairs
The Liberal Party’s faction problem
Norman Abjorensen
6 July 2015
It’s not just Labor that suffers from the inordinate influence of a NSW right wing, writes Norman Abjorensen
Books & arts
Australia reconstructs
Hannah Forsyth
15 June 2015
Books | Stuart Macintyre’s history of Australia in the 1940s is a big book in the best sense
A Magna Carta moment
David Hayes
5 June 2015
After eight centuries the revered document of liberty still grips the political imagination, says David Hayes in London
Books & arts
Who do we think we are?
Beverley Kingston
28 May 2015
Books | A new account of the boom in family history, and the insights it has revealed, informs in unexpected ways, writes Beverley Kingston
Essays & reportage
Manning Clark and the Man in Black
Alan Fewster
25 May 2015
ASIO’s ambivalence about Manning Clark might not have incited a diplomatic training incident, but Clark’s response was uncompromising
Books & arts
Forty millennia of Indigenous history at the British Museum
Maria Nugent
8 May 2015
The British Museum’s Indigenous Australia exhibition could change the conversation about relations between Indigenous people, museums and collections
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
Summer season
War stories
Jeannine Baker
15 April 2015
Women reporters showed they could report alongside men during the second world war
Books & arts
Framing Australia
Richard Johnstone
13 April 2015
Photography | A new exhibition makes illuminating connections across Australian photographic history, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
The voice of a generation
Brian McFarlane
1 April 2015
Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, now in its second screen version, recounts a remarkable life amid the upheavals of a century ago, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
University days
Beverley Kingston
30 March 2015
Books | Two new books highlight how Australian universities have changed in recent decades, writes Beverley Kingston
Essays & reportage
“I thought that dawn had come to the political landscape of Singapore”
Chris Lydgate
27 March 2015
For a decade and a half, Lee Kuan Yew’s People’s Action Party had held every seat in the Singapore parliament, writes Chris Lydgate. Then the maverick lawyer…
Books & arts
Peter FitzSimons: poltergeist with two brains
David Stephens
25 March 2015
Books | The self-described “storian” sells himself short in Gallipoli, writes David Stephens
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