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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 Books & arts Did the networks kill Homicide? Jock Given 2 July 2014 Three police shows axed in just one year. For some observers, it seemed like much more than a coincidence, writes Jock Given

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 Books & arts Very like, and very unlike Tim Rowse 17 December 2013 As two Australian books show, the European Enlightenment rested partly on a global traffic of persons between widely separated spaces

Books & arts The man who volunteered for Auschwitz John Besemeres 3 October 2013 John Besemeres reviews a remarkable book and recounts the career of its equally remarkable author Essays & reportage Casey, the dirt boys and the grey material Alan Fewster 2 September 2013 A cross-dressing MI6 agent and a shadowy British anti-communist propaganda outfit were key players in the development of Australia’s cold war “soft diplomacy” program Essays & reportage Forgotten war Henry Reynolds 25 July 2013 The looming centenary of the landing at Gallipoli is a reminder of unfinished business between settler and Indigenous Australia after a decade of incomplete reconciliation From the archive Watching The Back of Beyond Sylvia Lawson 17 July 2013 This 1954 documentary has “a kind of radiance” that captivated audiences around the world