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Summer season Shakira Hussein 30 March 2011 Slavery, foot-binding and duelling have lost their status as “honourable,” but will some other practices prove harder to reverse?
Frank Bongiorno 28 March 2011 In London Frank Bongiorno looks at why Lionel Logue is portrayed as an Aussie larrikin in The King’s Speech Books & arts Klaus Neumann 28 January 2011 The Impossible Border brings an important period in German history out of the shadow of the Nazi era, writes Klaus Neumann Books & arts Brett Evans 27 January 2011 Brett Evans reviews Tony Judt’s The Memory Chalet Books & arts Brian McFarlane 27 January 2011 Brian McFarlane reviews a novel by an Australian, set in Britain and first published in India
Books & arts Grant Evans 22 November 2010 Grant Evans reviews an account of the Great Famine, another major blow to the Mao myth
Essays & reportage Frank Sear 18 November 2010 Despite the best efforts of its overseers, two and a half centuries of excavation have left Pompeii vulnerable to weather and human activity, writes Frank Sear International John Besemeres 15 November 2010 The fall of the Berlin Wall was the iconic event in the unravelling of European communism. But it might not have happened without the strikes across Poland eight years earlier,… Books & arts Jill Kitson 27 October 2010 Best known as Samuel Johnson’s confidante, Hester Thrale was also a prolific and fearless writer Frank Bongiorno 29 September 2010 In London, Frank Bongiorno ponders the life of a highly productive expatriate who eventually returned to Australia, and those who have followed him
National affairs Rodney Tiffen 23 August 2010 Old political records keep being broken by the participants in this extraordinary election, writes Rodney Tiffen
Essays & reportage Klaus Neumann 20 August 2010 The parties are making promises like there’s no tomorrow and policy like there’s no yesterday, writes Klaus Neumann National affairs Norman Abjorensen 18 August 2010 Australian governments tend to take a hit at their first bid for re-election, writes Norman Abjorensen. But it’s not clear why Essays & reportage Jock Given 12 August 2010 The Coalition thinks wireless is the answer for Australian broadband. Jock Given remembers an earlier moment when wires-without-wires had their day. Essays & reportage Gillian Cowlishaw 7 July 2010 The law seemed to fail Boonie Hilt, a thirty-six year old Aboriginal man, but there were small victories along the way
Summer season Dean Ashenden 10 June 2010 The remarkable collaboration of anthropologists Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen, “bearers, shapers and captives of the Australian conscience”
Essays & reportage Rodney Tiffen 3 June 2010 Sydney’s media moguls took off the gloves on a winter’s night in 1960 – and the Packers lost Essays & reportage Maria Tumarkin 7 May 2010 In this extract from her new book, Maria Tumarkin recounts the events that unfolded after news of war reached the Ukrainian village of Dubovyazovka From the archive Dean Ashenden 15 March 2010 Keith Windschuttle brings the temperament of a barrister to his latest subject, the stolen generations Books & arts Maria Nugent & Shino Konishi 4 December 2009 The convenors of the “Baz Luhrmann’s Australia Reviewed” conference look at the film’s engagement with Indigenous history
Essays & reportage Richard Evans 19 October 2009 Australia’s disastrous showing at the Montreal Olympics ushered in a grim – and very expensive – culture of “excellence,” argues Richard Evans
Books & arts John Hughes 22 September 2009 Filmmaker John Hughes responds to Ruth Balint’s essay on history and television Essays & reportage Ruth Balint 30 July 2009 History on Australian television doesn’t reflect what historians really know about the past, and the fault is on both sides, writes Ruth Balint Essays & reportage Dean Ashenden 2 June 2009 For three decades the Australian War Memorial has been the focus of a struggle between two ways of knowing the past, writes Dean Ashenden Books & arts Ian McShane 18 May 2009 What role should local museums have in remembering events like the Victorian bushfires, asks Ian McShane
Essays & reportage Ruth Balint 29 April 2009 The Zentai extradition case reveals much about the postwar history of two very different countries
National affairs Geoffrey Barker 27 April 2009 We need to reconsider the importance of Anzac Day, writes Geoffrey Barker Books & arts Klaus Neumann 15 April 2009 Lauded overseas, The Baader Meinhof Complex is a flawed account of an important part of modern German history, writes Klaus Neumann Books & arts Klaus Neumann 17 March 2009 Part of the international success of Bernard Schlink’s novel, The Reader, reflects a mistaken view of contemporary Germany, writes Klaus Neumann Podcasts Peter Clarke 13 March 2009 Understanding the inevitability of devastating fires is essential for local communities and policy makers, historian Tom Griffiths tells Peter Clarke