Books & arts
3 September 2021
The Newsreader shows an industry, and a country, on the cusp of change
Essays & reportage
30 August 2021
The burial sites of Bennelong and Arthur Phillip suggest new ways of thinking about early Australia
Books & arts
16 August 2021
Could constitutional monarchies be the best of a bad lot?
From the archive
13 August 2021
The past meets the future in the town that inspired Nevil Shute’s bestselling novel
Essays & reportage
6 August 2021
Sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya’s bid for asylum in Tokyo is a reminder of how the 1956 Melbourne Games were riven by politics
Books & arts
6 August 2021
The authors of Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate respond to Bill Gammage’s “The Great Divide”
Books & arts
25 July 2021
Why did French culture matter not only to French migrants but also to colonial Australians?
Essays & reportage
20 July 2021
The debate about Dark Emu is trapped in a centuries-old European worldview, says the author of The Biggest Estate on Earth
Books & arts
16 July 2021
Anthropologist Nicholas Thomas is a skilled and knowledgeable guide to Pacific voyaging
Books & arts
9 July 2021
Even the Romans used jokes to drive home their point, though they tend to lose something in the translation
National affairs
2 July 2021
More than a “nation’s memory” is at stake in the funding debate
From the archive
30 June 2021
When communist delegates met secretly in Shanghai in July 1921, their individual fates — as well as their party’s — were impossible to foresee
National affairs
29 June 2021
Does our opening up to Indigenous history work best locally?
From the archive
25 June 2021
A seasoned observer of Indonesian politics has written a gripping account of Soeharto’s early years
National affairs
18 June 2021
Is a concept drawn from contract law the best test of sexual assault?
Books & arts
18 June 2021
Linked by its famous waterway, the city’s interwar fiction proved remarkably prescient
Books & arts
16 June 2021
What is Indigenous knowledge and who has it? Tim Rowse reviews Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s critique of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu
National affairs
12 June 2021
Buying the Sydney Swans bolstered the swashbuckling 1980s image of medical entrepreneur Geoffrey Edelsten, who died this week
Essays & reportage
8 June 2021
The awarding of the Sydney Peace Prize to the Uluru Statement from the Heart is a reminder of the challenges it raises for historians
Books & arts
5 June 2021
Beguiled by familiar photos, have we forgotten one of the first anti–Vietnam war groups?
Books & arts
4 June 2021
Conservative or liberal? A new book about the former prime minister rejects the old binary in favour of two other strands of thought
Books & arts
31 May 2021
Why the world needed a new edition of The Golden Ass
Essays & reportage
27 May 2021
The overwhelming Yes vote still grips our imagination
Books & arts
25 May 2021
Sean McMeekin’s new account of Stalin’s war will suit Vladimir Putin very well
From the archive
18 May 2021
Memories and identities have proved surprisingly adaptable in a society forged by migration
Books & arts
17 May 2021
Why did Australians forget the battles of 1917?
Books & arts
17 May 2021
One man’s unspoken Dunera story lies behind an exhibition in rural Victoria
Essays & reportage
14 May 2021
Women’s full right — and responsibility — to sit on juries came late to Australia
From the archive
7 May 2021
The centenary of the birth of Sophie Scholl, the Munich student executed in 1943, prompts reflections on the legacy of Germany’s anti-Nazi resistance
National affairs
7 May 2021
Inadequate funding doesn’t explain all the problems at the National Archives