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Essays & reportage It was time: Mick Young’s triumph Stephen Mills 29 November 2012 Not only was the 1972 election a watershed for Labor, it also created the modern political campaign National affairs A certain curiosity Norman Abjorensen 28 October 2012 Two key figures in the postwar development of the Labor Party never met, writes Norman Abjorensen National affairs Notes from a low-key governor-generalship 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 Dick Casey’s forgotten people Stephen Mills 25 July 2012 The Liberals’ innovative 1949 election campaign offered voters an alternative worldview

On Green Lotus Street Duncan Hewitt 1 February 2012 Shanghai doesn’t understand the appeal of its oldest precinct, writes Duncan Hewitt Essays & reportage The British ensign Henry Reynolds 24 January 2012 Australia’s attachment to a flag with the Union Jack in the top corner puts it in odd company The smoke this time David Hayes 1 November 2011 An encampment around St Paul’s Cathedral in London casts a new light on this icon of British wartime defiance. But the epic days of the 1940s may have something to teach the… National affairs A hundred years later, it’s time for another vital voting reform Brian Costar 6 October 2011 Out of the clash of interests in federal parliament in 1911 came an enduring electoral reform, writes Brian Costar. An update is long overdue

Books & arts Moralising the colonial past Tim Rowse 23 June 2011 Let’s allow our history to be complicated, argues Tim Rowse in this review of two new books about black–white relations Books & arts The return of the local Ian McShane 21 June 2011 Two books look at places where social ecologies take root and flourish National affairs Making war Brian Toohey 9 June 2011 Australians have as little idea about why we are fighting in Afghanistan as they had about why we entered the first world war, writes Brian Toohey Ah, the olden days! Frank Bongiorno 5 June 2011 Another history war under another conservative government. Frank Bongiorno reports from London