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National affairs A certain class of consent Alecia Simmonds 18 June 2021 Is a concept drawn from contract law the best test of sexual assault? Books & arts Sydney’s modernist wave Meg Brayshaw 18 June 2021 Linked by its famous waterway, the city’s interwar fiction proved remarkably prescient Books & arts The teller and the tale Tim Rowse 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 Dr X meets his end Frank Bongiorno 12 June 2021 Buying the Sydney Swans bolstered the swashbuckling 1980s image of medical entrepreneur Geoffrey Edelsten, who died this week

From the archive Becoming Taiwanese Klaus Neumann 18 May 2021 Memories and identities have proved surprisingly adaptable in a society forged by migration Books & arts All quiet about the Western Front Margaret Hutchison 17 May 2021 Why did Australians forget the battles of 1917? Books & arts Become what you are! Seumas Spark 17 May 2021 One man’s unspoken Dunera story lies behind an exhibition in rural Victoria Essays & reportage Friendless in the courtroom Alecia Simmonds 14 May 2021 Women’s full right — and responsibility — to sit on juries came late to Australia

Essays & reportage Was Bob Askin corrupt? Mike Steketee 9 April 2021 With a new book reopening the debate about the one-time NSW premier’s behaviour in office, our correspondent assesses the evidence National affairs Invisible arrivals Stuart Macintyre 1 April 2021 The national identities ascribed to Australia’s postwar migrants masked a striking diversity of backgrounds and attitudes Books & arts How does one get used to it? Phillip Deery 1 April 2021 Books | Sheila Fitzpatrick’s new book tells a remarkable cold war migration story National affairs Home ground disadvantage? Ian Hancock 31 March 2021 Will a dysfunctional party organisation in his home state block Josh Frydenberg’s path to the Lodge?