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Essays & reportage Frank Bongiorno 16 December 2013 The cyclones of the late 1960s and early 1970s didn’t shape the Whitlam government as much as gentler breezes of the 1950s and early 1960s
Books & arts Klaus Neumann 9 December 2013 Klaus Neumann reviews two books that put displaced people at the heart of contemporary history Books & arts Tom Griffiths 3 December 2013 In his desire to find the evil in Douglas Mawson, David Day overlooks the awkward tenderness and vulnerability that may lie at the heart of this flawed and driven man, writes… Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 15 November 2013 Three biographies reveal twentieth-century Australians in the thick of things, writes Frank Bongiorno Essays & reportage R.J.B. Bosworth 31 October 2013 Uzbekistan is still writing and rewriting its own history, reports a recently returned R.J.B. Bosworth
International David G. Marr 10 October 2013 David G. Marr describes the genesis of his new book, a detailed look at a turning point in modern Vietnamese history
Books & arts John Besemeres 3 October 2013 John Besemeres reviews a remarkable book and recounts the career of its equally remarkable author Essays & reportage 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 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 Sylvia Lawson 17 July 2013 This 1954 documentary has “a kind of radiance” that captivated audiences around the world
Books & arts John Besemeres 2 July 2013 A new account of Poland’s experience of the second world war helps fill a blank page in our historical consciousness, writes John Besemeres
Essays & reportage Michael Cannon 29 June 2013 As managing editor of the Melbourne Herald, Keith Murdoch battled employers, sensation-mongering and overly large headlines in a remarkable series of notes to his senior… Books & arts Frank Sear 18 June 2013 What explains our fascination with the buried Neapolitan town? Books & arts Henry Reynolds 2 May 2013 Henry Reynolds reviews a new account of exploration on two continents Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 28 April 2013 Sylvia Lawson reviews John Hughes’s documentary about the poet Judith Wright, and Pablo Larraín’s No
David Hayes 28 April 2013 The renowned director’s new film, which uses the socialist mood of 1945 to assail the world Margaret Thatcher created, is bad history and worse politics, says David Hayes
Books & arts Duncan Hewitt 28 April 2013 Duncan Hewitt reviews two witty new books about China’s faultlines and prospects National affairs Richard Johnstone 24 April 2013 The State Library of New South Wales’s breathtaking trove of photographs from the 1870s Books & arts Brett Evans 18 April 2013 Rome’s greatest orator has a message for the current generation of political leaders, says Brett Evans Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 19 March 2013 Sylvia Lawson on the ABC’s triumphant return to the Opera House
National affairs Kerry Ryan 5 March 2013 Like Australia, Britain decided to make it harder for new arrivals to become citizens. Kerry Ryan looks at the mixed results
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 27 February 2013 New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson Books & arts Chris Lydgate 12 February 2013 Chris Lydgate reviews a new biography of Stamford Raffles, the contradictory colonialist who founded Singapore, and an account of a trip through the modern-day city state… From the archive Frank Bongiorno 19 December 2012 What happened when journalist Peter Coleman assembled a star-studded group of writers in 1962 to rethink the way intellectuals viewed Australia? David Hayes 3 December 2012 An endless recession has changed politics and livelihoods. But in a many-sided national argument there is no consensus about its lessons, says David Hayes
Essays & reportage Stephen Mills 29 November 2012 Not only was the 1972 election a watershed for Labor, it also created the modern political campaign
National affairs Norman Abjorensen 28 October 2012 Two key figures in the postwar development of the Labor Party never met, writes Norman Abjorensen National affairs Paul Rodan 17 October 2012 Are the intriguing revelations from the notebooks of Paul Hasluck part of a larger trove, asks Paul Rodan From the archive Stephen Mills 25 July 2012 The Liberals’ innovative 1949 election campaign offered voters an alternative worldview Essays & reportage Frank Bongiorno 4 July 2012 Born to a free-thinking family in Melbourne around 1860, William Chidley became an energetic campaigner with some surprisingly respectable supporters, writes Frank …