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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 Books & arts Ellie Rennie 27 February 2009 Ellie Rennie reviews First Australians on DVD
National affairs Cameron Reynes 25 February 2009 The South Australian government is denying access to key documents about the illegal removal of Aboriginal children, writes Cameron Raynes
Retrospective Tom Griffiths 16 February 2009 Testimony from the 1939 and 2009 fires reveals what we haven’t learnt from history Essays & reportage Gillian Cowlishaw 13 February 2009 Annette’s story is not just another addition to Australia’s “stolen generation” narrative, writes Gillian Cowlishaw From the archive Shino Konishi 29 January 2009 The anthropologist’s visit to Tasmania in 1802 is a revealing story of love gone wrong Essays & reportage Sylvia Lawson 6 January 2009 We are constantly delivered a double miracle: Aboriginal survival, and the Aboriginal will to forgive us all and share it, writes Sylvia Lawson
Essays & reportage Dean Ashenden 18 December 2008 Two films made sixty years apart are a reminder of how hard it is to tell the story of Australia, writes Dean Ashenden Essays & reportage David Andrew Roberts 27 November 2008 Still in print after five decades, Russel Ward’s The Australian Legend has survived its critics, writes David Andrew Roberts