Inside Story

Essays & reportage Caught out: Edna and Jack Ryan and the 1951 referendum Lyndall Ryan 13 October 2014 Expelled from the Communist Party for not toeing the line, Lyndall Ryan's parents were faced with a dilemma when Robert Menzies’s government tried to ban the party Essays & reportage “Queue jumpers” and the perils of crossing Sydney Harbour on a Manly ferry Klaus Neumann 1 October 2014 The treatment of boat arrivals during the 1977 federal election campaign shows that political orthodoxy doesn’t always prevail, writes Klaus Neumann National affairs Militarisation marches on Henry Reynolds 25 September 2014 The militarisation of Australia’s history has begun to reflect back on the present and change our political practice, argues Henry Reynolds Books & arts Imperial intimacies Frank Bongiorno 19 September 2014 Historian John Rickard recalls an Australia in which private lives occasionally teetered on the edge of scandal

Books & arts Remarkable acts of courage Sara Dowse 31 July 2014 Two books about the second world war show that humans are capable of lifting ourselves out of the mire Britain’s Great War: traps of memory David Hayes 17 July 2014 The centenary of the 1914–18 war reveals Britain to be a country of permanent involution, says David Hayes National affairs Gay rights and gay wrongs Graham Willett 15 July 2014 In its coverage of gay law reform over the past fifty years, the Australian has charted a course from pacesetter to curmudgeon, writes Graham Willett in this… Essays & reportage Near-death on Mort Street Peter Browne 6 July 2014 By the time the first edition of the Australian hit the streets, a vital part of Rupert Murdoch’s strategy had gone awry

Italy’s best-known comedian meets the ghost of Mussolini James Panichi 18 February 2014 Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement made stunning gains at Italy’s last election, writes James Panichi. But as the controversy over its guiding… Books & arts Picnics and politics Kate Bagnall 24 January 2014 Chinese-Australian community leaders created a new perception of the Chinese in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writes Kate Bagnall Essays & reportage Cold war, soft diplomacy Alan Fewster 14 January 2014 As the Cold War intensified in the mid fifties, Australia saw a special role for itself in disseminating information and propaganda in Southeast Asia, writes Alan Fewster Books & arts A different kind of war Kay Saunders 8 January 2014 Kay Saunders reviews Joan Beaumont’s account of Australia’s first world war