Essays & reportage
10 October 2024
As the first anniversary of the Voice vote approaches, should we be thinking differently about truth-telling?
Books & arts
6 September 2023
Adam Kuper’s survey of museums culminates in a plea for “cosmopolitan” institutions
Essays & reportage
24 April 2023
Newly opened and unexpectedly vulnerable, the Australian War Memorial faced its first onslaught in January 1936
Books & arts
20 December 2022
Why was a successful scientist and gifted artist airbrushed out of history?
National affairs
11 November 2022
While the Australian War Memorial lavishes $500 million on its controversial extension, wartime service records go undigitised
Essays & reportage
1 May 2020
Reappraisals and re-enactments have shaped public memory, but our understanding of James Cook’s life and impact continues to evolve
Essays & reportage
28 April 2020
Amid thwarted anniversary plans, a major National Museum of Australia exhibition goes online
Books & arts
2 March 2020
Books | Has Geoffrey Robertson made a persuasive case for returning heritage objects?
National affairs
15 January 2019
It’s time for the AWM to rethink its attitude to the frontier wars. But that means its critics, and the Labor Party, need to change tack too
National affairs
5 September 2018
A parliamentary inquiry seems to be carefully avoiding the real challenge for Australia’s national museums, archives and libraries
International
10 March 2015
The firebombing of March 1945 lives on the margins of public remembrance
International
5 November 2014
Exhibitions across Europe show that national histories continue to shape the telling of the first world war, writes Daniel Nethery
Essays & reportage
12 September 2012
Nearly fifty years after her family left Cape Town’s apartheid-era District Six, Bonita Bennett is helping rescue the stories of its former residents, writes Larry Schwartz
International
28 August 2012
For Hashimoto Toru – hailed by many as a future national leader – it’s out with human rights and in with government-authored history
Books & arts
18 May 2009
What role should local museums have in remembering events like the Victorian bushfires, asks Ian McShane