Other Voices
18 July 2025
Jillian Segal’s proposals won’t only erode free speech but could also worsen the problem she was asked to tackle
National affairs
23 June 2025
How Australia viewed the weekend bombing
National affairs
19 June 2025
As Iran and Israel wage war, big military parades are held in the United States and Britain
Essays & reportage
29 May 2025
He achieved his goal, but Australia’s alliance-led march to Iraq lacked a vital ingredient
Books & arts
23 May 2025
Old ties were broken forever by the time the second world war drew to a close
Essays & reportage
24 April 2025
Sidney Nolan’s remarkable Gallipoli series brought together disparate strands of the artist’s life
Essays & reportage
4 April 2025
A new book revives the debate about the behaviour of Australian troops in 1942
Books & arts
21 February 2025
A chilling account of occupied southeastern Ukraine reveals a systematic program of Russification combined with chaos, brutality and corruption
Books & arts
4 February 2025
The intelligencer who built Australia’s spy service
Essays & reportage
18 December 2024
Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons
Books & arts
2 December 2024
Strategies and the battlefield take centre-stage in an often gripping history of the First World War’s eastern front
National affairs
12 November 2024
Fifty-six years later, a soldier finally receives his Victoria Cross. Was it all a matter of timing?
Books & arts
11 November 2024
Footage of the sinking of the German battleship filmed by an Australian crew reverberated around the world
Essays & reportage
13 September 2024
What the International Court of Justice says about Israel’s treatment of the occupied territories and what it means for Australia
International
2 September 2024
As Israeli protesters take to the streets, news emerges that defence minister Yoav Gallant has clashed again with Benjamin Netanyahu
International
30 August 2024
A military analyst and an economist see Myanmar’s junta heading towards a desperate fight for survival
Essays & reportage
8 August 2024
The military hierarchy took a dim view of aircrew traumatised by their experiences over Nazi Germany
International
2 August 2024
While the United States fumbles, more provocations have lifted the risks of a region-wide conflict in the Middle East
Books & arts
25 July 2024
Can six soldier poets help us understand the first world war anew?
International
21 June 2024
As the merciless bombings continue in Gaza, developments on the Lebanon–Israel border are adding to the risk of yet more warfare
Books & arts
20 May 2024
The extraordinary life — and death — of Roger Casement, humanitarian and Irish patriot
Books & arts
10 May 2024
How a shape-shifting journalist turned the Nazis’ techniques back on them
International
10 May 2024
As the United States prepares for conflict with China, its military build-up in Micronesia is intensifying
Essays & reportage
23 April 2024
A chance find reveals a trove of wartime letters and other memorabilia
International
10 April 2024
Pressure is mounting among Israel’s allies for a long-term settlement
Books & arts
9 April 2024
How Vladimir Putin’s empire dream became Ukraine’s war and an international nightmare
Books & arts
2 April 2024
In the wake of a war and the Holocaust, how should music commemorate?
Books & arts
30 March 2024
A major new series about the postwar world poses the inevitable question: has the cold war returned?
Books & arts
27 March 2024
James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s war never ended
National affairs
19 March 2024
There is an alternative, but the debate looks like taking some time to shift